The 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the French military doctor Alphonse Laveran for discovering the malaria parasite and, for the first time, demonstrating the role of protozoa in causing disease. Laveran's discovery heralded the birth of medical parasitology.
The man who unravelled the mysteries of the nervous system! Spanish scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal laid the foundations of neuroscience with his neuron doctrine and won the Nobel Prize. His work still inspires the medical world. Join him on his journey into the mysterious world of our brain!
A name among the giants of medical history — Dr. Laveran. His discoveries reached beyond his own era and placed him alongside Pasteur and Koch. He opened a new front in humanity's fight against its greatest enemies; his light still shines in every corner of modern medicine. Who was this remarkable scientist?
From a paperboy to the most successful investor in the world: Warren Buffett's value-investing philosophy, the Berkshire Hathaway legend, and the miraculous power of compound returns.
The father of modern economics, Adam Smith was a thinker who transcended his time not only with his concept of the "invisible hand" but also with his moral philosophy, his theory of the division of labour and his ideas on the role of the state. But was Smith really a pure laissez-faire advocate?
From a two-bedroom apartment to the world's largest hedge fund, Ray Dalio offers a unique perspective with his radical-transparency philosophy, his analysis of debt cycles and his framework for how the economic machine works.
Eugene Fama, who demonstrated mathematically that the market cannot be beaten, created the most influential — and most contentious — theory in the world of finance with his Efficient Market Hypothesis, laying the intellectual foundation for the trillion-dollar passive-investment revolution.
A psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics, a scientist who mapped the systematic errors of the human mind, a thinker who shook the assumption of the rational human to its foundations: Daniel Kahneman's legacy changed the way we see the world.
A journey from Istanbul to MIT, from Galatasaray High School to the Nobel rostrum. Daron Acemoğlu's institutional theory of economics, his ground-breaking ideas on why nations fail, and his critical stance on artificial intelligence.