Norrby: Scientists should be out teaching












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            There are more viruses than stars. What’s the favourite virus of the world’s top virologis

            Norrby? When was awarded the doctor honoris causa degree at Charles University on 30 Janua
            opportunity to ask him.
            Professor Norrby prefers the adenovirus [ URL "http://vir.sgmjournals.org/content/5/2/221"

            you can tell that he likes not just viruses, but mathematics as well. There are the five p
            and three regular dimensional bodies, the most complex of which is the icosahedron. The ad
            shaped like a beautiful icosahedron, with 12 ‘spikes’ sticking out of its vertices, and it

            who discovered these ‘spikes’.
            The spikes were discovered through the ability of the vertex structure to form a small str

            - a dodecahedral cage. In classical Greek literature, the five platonic bodies represent e
            and water, with the fifth being a dodecahedron. “Each face of a dodecahedron has five edge
            line between two corners you get the proportion - the golden section. Nature uses systems 

            way of economising in order to achieve maximum volume for maximum surface,” explained Prof
            Scientist or teacher?
            When Dean of the Medical Faculty of Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, Norrby did his utmost

            teachers. He is of the belief that there is no substitute for a teacher. It is the teacher
            students to become interested in particular fields, conveys new, relevant information and 
            current events. 

            But, according to Norrby, there is still a disparity in the credit given to scientists and
            give credit to good scientist if they publish in Science or Nature, but how do we give tea
            I don’t have a good answer to that,” he stated. Scientists should, though, be out teaching

            beneficial is not just to students, but to scientists as well, as shown in practise at Har
            Soul and mind
            Norrby believes in a healthy soul and body. As a jogger, he used to set himself one modest

            - a 30 km cross country race in Stockholm. While he has taken part in the race 25 times, i
            years he has done the 15 km race instead. “The important thing is not the race, but that y
            exercise and enjoy what you are doing.”