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Founded in 2014, the Simons Society of Fellows is a community of scholars that encourages intellectual interactions across disciplines and across research centers in the New York City area.
Senior Fellows are distinguished scientists based in New York City. Junior Fellows are outstanding young scientists who receive support from the foundation for three years to conduct independent research at an institution of higher learning in New York City, with no teaching obligations.
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For decades it seemed that room-temperature superconductivity might be forever out of reach, but in the last five years a few research groups around the world have been engaged in a race to attain it in the lab.
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, who transformed an obscure bacterial immune mechanism, commonly called CRISPR, into a tool that can simply and cheaply edit the genomes of everything from wheat to mosquitoes to humans.
David Spergel, director of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics, weighs in on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, which went to three scientists' work revealing that stars at the center of our galaxy are hurtling through space around a supermassive black hole.
A suite of new servers and systems management software from Dell EMC is aimed at retaining long-term and complex data for researchers, says Ian Fisk, co-director of the Flatiron Institute's Scientific Computing Core.
