One Hundred Reasons to be a Scientist https://prizes.ictp.it The Dirac Medal, given in honour of P.A.M. Dirac, is announced annually on 8 August—Dirac’s birthday. As a lead up to this year’s announcement, ICTP will highlight on its website former medallists who have also contributed to the book One Hundred Reasons to be a Scientist. This book is a collection of essays where the scientists have distilled their messages for budding researchers. daily 1 2009-06-08T07:06:25Z Road to High Energy Physics https://prizes.ictp.it/pio/words/100/road-to-high-energy-physics Dr. Stephen Adler: Life in Science No publisher pfilak 2009-08-04T11:55:54Z News Item Finding Freedom in Science https://prizes.ictp.it/pio/words/100/finding-freedom-in-science Dr. Frank Wilczek: Mathematical symmetry at the frontiers of physics No publisher pfilak 2009-08-04T11:52:09Z News Item Starting Out Early https://prizes.ictp.it/pio/words/100/starting-out-early Dr. John Hopfield: From kitchen chemistry to associative neural network No publisher pfilak 2009-08-04T11:43:02Z News Item Science for the “Real” World https://prizes.ictp.it/pio/words/100/science-for-the-201creal201d-world Dr. Michael Berry: “A Dreamer and a Scribbler of Mathematics” No publisher pfilak 2009-08-04T11:43:47Z News Item