Client: UNIVERSITY OF BASEL Date: February 21, 2013 Category: ,

RIGI WORKSHOP


New designed customized silver jewels as gifts for the invited speakers and student poster winners at Rigi Workshop 2013. This workshop is focused on the molecular world, “Thinking Big in a Small World: Creativity in the Molecular Sciences”, and was held on top of Mt. Rigi in Luzem, Switzerland from 20th to 22th of January of 2013, organized by the “Platform Biology of the Swiss Academy of Sciences”. A customized jewel for each invited speaker and student poster winners inspired on his/her research.

Dimensions / XYZ
According to each project

Technology
Lost wax casting

Material
Sterling silver

DNA / TIEPIN
Daniel Schümperli, molecular biologist and member of HUGO, a musical band that transposes DNA codes and other types of genetic and biological data into music.

Credits
Inspirational photo: NASA

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MOLECULAR / TIEPIN
Jay Siegel, organic chemist exploring molecular design, chemical synthesis and dynamic stereochemistry.

Credits
Inspirational photo: Molecular Modelling

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SEA URCHIN / TIEPIN
Tim Hunt, Biochemist and Nobel Prize winner, explored the cell division of sea urchins, in particular, Arbacia punctulata, who described and named Lamarck in 1816.

Credits
Inspirational photo: Sue Hammond 2013

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MOLECULAR SOCCER / BROOCH
Helmut Schwarz, physical chemist and President of the Humboldt Foundation, investigates about the inclusion of helium within carbon components, which are similar in shape to a football.

Credits
Inspirational photo: NASA/JPL-Caltec

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COGNITIVE HEXAGON / BROOCH
Susanna Hempel, PhD student of Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, explores early stages of tumorigenesis, linked to Drosophila in cancer research.

Credits
Inspirational photo: The fly eye

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COULOMB CRYSTAL / BROOCH
Pascal Eberle, PhD student of Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, studies the Reactions Between Laser-Cooled Ions and Atoms at Ultra-Low Collision Energies and the Extension to Molecular Ions, experimenting with Coulomb crystals structures.

Credits
Inspirational photo: Uni Basel

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