Embedded Files
Volume 1: A Keyboardist in a Rock Band?
A Professional Athlete?
A Self-Taught PhD Noble-Price Winner?
科普系列第一期：现实中的爽文女主：摇滚乐队键盘手，当自己博导还顺手拿了诺奖…
By G9 郑睿 Emily Zheng & G9 金子曰 Grace Jin Edit: 罗李凌 Lavine Luo
On October 5, 2022, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists. They are Morten Meldal, a Danish scientist, and American scientists Karl Barry Sharpless and Carolyn R. Bertozzi. Bertozzi graduated from Harvard University and is currently a professor at Stanford University. Before the price was given out, she had also contributed significantly to medical research. As the only woman among the three winners and the eighth female scientist in history, Bertozzi received extensive attention from audiences. However, Bertozzi's life is not rigid and monotonous; it is filled with other interests. The richness of her life and her achievements made her legendary.
2022 年 10 月 5 日，诺贝尔化学奖被颁发给了三位科学家。他们分别是丹麦科学家莫滕·梅尔达尔（Morten Meldal）、美国科学家卡尔·巴里·沙普利斯（Karl Barry Sharpless）以及卡洛琳·贝尔托齐（Carolyn R. Bertozzi）。贝尔托齐毕业于哈佛大学，目前是斯坦福大学的教授，曾经也为医学研究做出了巨大贡献。作为三位获奖者中唯一的女性，以及历史上第八位获奖的女性科学家，贝尔托齐收到了广泛的关注。然而贝尔托齐的人生并不古板、单调，其实她也有发展的其他方面的兴趣，是她生活的丰富程度与取得的成就缔造了她的传奇。
The Eighth Female Winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 化学诺奖第八位女性得主
Since 121 years ago (beginning in 1901), only eight women scientists have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. When Bertozzi won the prize, she was shocked to call her father and tell him the good news; Mr. Bertozzi probably guessed her words: "You won the Nobel Prize, didn't you?" In addition to the Nobel Prize, Bertozzi has also won other awards and achievements. She showed her talent in music and sports in middle school, and chose Harvard among multiple universities; Five years after graduation, she became a doctor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley; In 1999, Bertozzi became the youngest winner of MacArthur's "Genius Award"; In 2010, she won the Lemelson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Award. She also created the topic of Bioorthogonal chemistry, which is the research direction of the works that won this Nobel Prize.
121 年以来（1901 年开始），只有八位女科学家获得了诺贝尔化学奖。贝尔托齐获奖的时候，震惊地打电话给了自己的父亲，告知了这一喜讯；父亲大概猜到了贝尔托齐的话，问到： “你获得了诺贝尔奖，是吗？”除诺奖以外，贝尔托齐也曾经获得过其他奖项及成就。中学时期展现出音乐、体育天赋的贝尔托齐，在众多大学中选择了哈佛；毕业五年后，成为了加州大学伯克利分校化学博士；1999 年成为麦克阿瑟“天才奖”的最年轻喜获得者；2010 年，获得了勒枚尔森 - 麻省理工学院奖；开创生物正交化学，也就是赢得此次诺奖的作品的研究方向。
"This is so hard, and I love it!" “这个好难，我喜欢！”
贝尔托齐现如今能获得这么多奖项绝非偶然。这位获得了诺奖的科学家，其实在大学第二年才发现自己对化学的兴趣。在这之前，已经升入哈佛的贝尔托齐选择了医学预科，并大学一年级结束时选择了生物为主修专业。值得一提的是，贝尔托齐改变人生轨迹的过程十分具有戏剧性。大二时，有一门有机化学课因太过艰苦而出了名。贝尔托齐的同学常抱怨这门课的记忆训练太痛苦了，教授们仿佛在刻意使课程变得困难。但这却让她提起了兴趣——某次采访中，她说道：“到目前为止，这是我最喜欢的一门课，我一点也不觉得乏味。它和我的大脑很匹配。”
研究生时期，贝尔托齐在伯克利跟随她的导师马克 ·贝德纳斯（Mark Bednarski）进行进一步学习，可贝德纳斯却在第三年确诊了结肠癌，病情恶劣以至于没法继续做科研。这对她的求学之路造成了极大的影响。尽管如此，贝尔托齐和她的几个实验伙伴仍没有转到其他小组，而是独自完成了他们的博士学业，没有任何人监督。后来她回忆这段时光，说道：“由于监管和安全方面的考虑，这种情况现在不会发生，但那时候有点像西部蛮荒的体验 !”
It is no coincidence that Bertozzi was able to win so many awards later in life. However, this chemistry scientist who won the chemistry Nobel Prize discovered her interest in chemistry only in her second year of college. Before that, Bertozzi, who had already moved on to Harvard, chose pre-med and even chose to major in biology at the end of her freshman year at college. Interestingly, The reason that Bertozzi realizes her interest in chemistry was very dramatic.In her second year of college, one organic chemistry class became notorious for being too grueling. Bertozzi's classmates often complained that the memory training in the class was too painful as if the professors were deliberately making the course difficult. But it inspired her - in one interview, she said, ‘It was by far the class that I enjoyed most and I didn’t find it at all tedious. It matched my brain.’ In graduate school, Bertozzi furthered her studies at Berkeley with her mentor Mark Bednarski. In her third
year, however, Bednarski was diagnosed with colon cancer and was unable to continue his research, which nearly changed her path. But the uplifting thing is that instead of transferring to another group, Bertozzi and several of her lab partners completed their PhDs alone, without any supervision. She later recalled, ‘This wouldn’t happen now because of regulation and safety concerns but back then it was a bit of a Wild West!’
Bertozzi's Colorful Life 拒绝标签，是肆意多彩的人生
It might be easy to think of Bertozzi as a scientific genius...or even a weirdo. But if you think so, it would be wrong. Although she was already talented in science in high school, she was even more outstanding in her seemingly unrelated area of music and sports. A less well-known fact is that a large part of Bertozzi's desire to attend Harvard was to enter the music department and have a major in music. Though she later chose medicine at the suggestion of her parents. Bertozzi has been a professional music producer since high school and has won numerous awards for composition and music. After college, though music failed to become her main career, it remained her passion. While studying,
Bertozzi continued her music dream: she formed a heavy metal band called "Bored of Education" with her friends and earned back her tuition money by playing gigs. In sports, Bertozzi also has a full talent. She loved fitness and was good at outdoor sports. She was good at basketball and had trained professionally in football. Because of her success in sports, she was awarded athletic scholarships to several schools, which further helped her get into Harvard.
仅看前文，或许容易将贝尔托齐联想成一位只顾学习与钻研的科学强人……亦或是怪人。但她的人生履历可远不只有科学。作为一位在高中时期就已锋芒毕露的科学大牛，她在体育和音乐领域也小有成就。当初，贝尔托齐想要升入哈佛，其中很大一部分原因是想进入音乐系，主修音乐；后来因为父母的建议转而选择了医学。自高中起，贝尔托齐就已经是一位专业的音乐制作人，并多次在作曲和音乐方面获奖了。大学后，尽管没能成为主业，但音乐却始终是她的一大爱好。她一边学习，一边继续她的音乐事业：与好友组建起一个名为 “Bored of Education” 的重金属摇滚乐队，又顺便靠着演出，挣回了学费钱。此外，体育方面贝尔托齐也有着充分的天赋。她喜欢健身，擅长户外运动；篮球打得好，还受过专业的足球训练。也因为在这方面的出色成绩，她曾拿过多所学校的体育奖学金，并进一步帮助她进入了哈佛。
As high school students, what can we learn from Bertozzi? Such an example in the chemistry field is a role model we can only look forward to and a goal we can learn from. As mentioned above, Bertozzi has a wide range of interests, including music and football, while going deeply into the academic field. We can also try more activities in our spare time; not for fame and achievements, but for physical and mental pleasure. In addition, Bertozzi decided on the way that made her famous and fought for all her life in her sophomore year of college. For those who are still worried about their future today, don't worry- it is okay to focus on thepresent work.
Finally, encouragement from SheSTEMs: we hope all students interested in STEM can take Bertozzi as a model, pick up confidence, and go for your goal.
作为高中生的我们，能从贝尔托齐身上学到些什么？这样一个化学领域的榜样不仅仅是我们只能仰望的角色，更是可以学习参照的目标。正如前文所说，贝尔托齐在深入学术的同时还有着各式各样的兴趣爱好，包括音乐与足球等。趁年轻，我们也可以在闲暇时间多多尝试；不为名利、只求身心愉悦也是个不错的选择。此外，贝尔托齐在大学二年级才真正走上她为之奋斗终身，同时令她名利双收的路，所以如今对自己未来还满是担忧的所有人，不必着急，过好当下每一天才是最好的。
最后，来自 SheSTEMs 社团的勉励：望所有对科学领域有兴趣的同学，视贝尔托齐为模范，拾起自信，向目标进发。
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse