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University of Groningen adds special bicycle rack for Nobel Laureates because they deserve their own parking spaces

His own bike parking spot - just for Nobel Laureates

The University of Groningen has created a special bicycle rack for the Nobel Prize winner Professor Ben Feringa to recognise his achievements.

It is a custom that at universities around the world, Nobel Laureates have their own parking facilities, but the university was presented with a problem when it realised that the Professor generally cycled to work on campus.

So on Thursday 23 August 2017, a special Nobel Laureate bike rack was erected at the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Ben L. Feringa was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage (France) and Professor Sir James Fraser Stoddart (UK) for their work on the development of molecular machines.

Feringa has been Professor of Organic Chemistry since 1988.

His discovery in 1999 of the ‘molecular motor’, a light-driven rotating molecule, is widely recognized as a world-class breakthrough in understanding the idea that molecular motors can transport themselves through the bloodstream in order to deliver drugs to previously unreachable locations in the human body with a high degree of accuracy.

 

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andyp | 7 years ago
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Bike racks, pah. Here in Manchester our Nobel Prize winners get *a bin* in their offices. Makes the decades of slog all worthwhile.

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BehindTheBikesheds | 7 years ago
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Only two weeks after the story so well done.

So slow that you couldn't be bothered to include a link to the video that accompanies the story laugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdT0oiYmmkc

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fenix | 7 years ago
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Bloody elites !
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Leviathan | 7 years ago
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G*clears throat*ningen is already a great place to cycle.

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Yorkshire wallet | 7 years ago
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Mental discrimination at work. Down with IQ fascism!

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Fluffed | 7 years ago
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BRB, just getting a Nobel prize so I can get decent bike storage at work.

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ktache | 7 years ago
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This is such a good story.  Nothing at all to get angry or worked up about.

Very intelligent gentleman rides bike to work.

 

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