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9th December 2016 Science and Innovation Network

Michael Moody

Michael Moody

Second Secretary

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Once a year, the global scientific community is honoured and celebrated during the Nobel Prize Award ceremony in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.  Sweden has been the birthplace of some of the world’s leading researchers, including the Nobel Prize founder and inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel.  Sweden also boasts some of the world’s leading research […]

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24th March 2014

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by Paul Johnston

Ambassador to Ireland

“Digging for truth: the uses and abuses of language”

I was honoured to be invited to the Nobel Museum on Friday by my friend and colleague, the Irish Ambassador, James Carroll, to take part in a celebration of the life and work of the Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. The poem I chose to read was “Digging”, in which the young poet expresses […]

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10th December 2013

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by Paul Johnston

Ambassador to Ireland

A Lunch for Nobel Laureates

One of the great pleasures of being Ambassador in Stockholm is the opportunity to host a lunch for our Nobel laureates. Yesterday Professors Peter Higgs and Michael Levitt, with their friends, family and colleagues came to the Residence. It was a chance to celebrate their discoveries. I noted what another British academic had given as […]

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3rd December 2013

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by Paul Johnston

Ambassador to Ireland

A GREAT British Science Day at Konserthuset this Friday

This Friday, December 6 at Konserthuset, the British Embassy in Stockholm will host a series of exciting events under the banner “Research & Innovation is GREAT”. We have world class scientists, entrepreneurs and experts talking about invention, discovery and innovation. It should be fascinating and fun. We’d love you to be part of it. You […]

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