One Nobel Recipient Accepted Her Prize Wearing A Gown Covered In Neurons That She Discovered

[Recursion]

Last edited Mon Dec 22, 2014, 11:51 AM - Edit history (1)

http://www.themarysue.com/neuron-dress-coolest-thing-ever/

As much as we don’t want the fashion choices of the world’s incredibly influential and important scientists to necessarily overshadow their scientific achievements—seriously, despite what you might think, we promise we don’t—you’ve got to admit that wearing a dress decked out in sequined examples of the very neurons you helped to discover is ridiculously awesome. It’s like May-Britt Moser is a real-life Ms. Frizzle, except she uses her time and talent to help everyone, rather than send a bunch of ungrateful kids on impossible field trips.

I kid, of course: Ms. Frizzle is a saint. But she’s also fictional, so let’s ignore her for now in favor of a real life woman who kicked so much science ass that she won a Nobel for it. Founder of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), May-Britt Moser is a pioneer in researching the spatial reasoning powers of the human brain, particularly related to memory; it’s her work in identifying the grid cells that make up the brain’s positioning system that won her the 2014 prize for Physiology and Medicine, along with her husband Edward Moser and their colleague John O’Keefe.

Also, they look kind of like this (the neurons, not the Mosers):



The red dots indicate each neuron’s firing field, and the equal distance at which they’re all spaced from one another creates a triangular tessellation.

It’s these recently discovered neurons that inspired Matthew Hubble, a London designer who specializes in science-inspired clothing for women, to create an outfit for Moser to wear to the award ceremony last week in Oslo. Well, that and he thinks that scientists should be as celebrated as movie stars are, so why shouldn’t they have designers fawning all over them when they attend formal events? Can’t argue with that logic, if you ask me.

Thanks to BumRush downthread -- here's the gown:

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Here's the gown

Definitely cool!

[NV Whino]

2. Very nice!

[Recursion]

3. Thanks!

Thanks, added to the OP

[BrotherIvan]

4. Amazing

That's the new picture under the term "bragging rights". Well-earned and completely awesome.