We, the puzzle hunt authors, were just shocked by Figure 1 in this Nature article on the Nobel gender gap. Can you believe that ratio?! So, we figured we’d share it with you, along with some inspirational quotes to get you through your conference day.

I just think white light generation is just one of these remarkable things to see, and actually, you know, one colour of light goes in to just water or any clear anything and out comes all the colours of the rainbow when the pulses are short and intense enough.

Conclusion: Big helix in several chains, phosphates on outside, phosphate-phosphate inter-helical bonds disrupted by water. Phosphate links available to proteins.

They said I was crazy, absolutely mad.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.