Is creativity important in science? @MoleCluesTV

Is creativity important in science? @MoleCluesTV

Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 27 minutes ago

Three outstanding scientists - Paul Alivisatos, Steven Chu and Daniel Nocera - give their views on how science works in this series of short videos, recorded during the Molecular Frontiers Symposium "Sustainable Energy" at Chalmers University of Technology, December 2017.

Is creativity important in science?

Chris Dobson: Ageing Earth

The Carbon Cycle

Tim Hunt: Pain and suffering: the agony of not knowing

Photosynthesis

Tomas Lindahl: DNA Instability and the Role of TREX1

Jens Nielsen: Systems Biology of Metabolism: Impact on Human Health and Industrial Biotechnology

Emma Frans: How to think like a scientist

Morgan Cable: Ocean Worlds: Searching for Evidence of Life in our Cosmic Backyard

Susan Lindquist: Lamarck was right: better living through chemistry

Stefan Hell: How to localize a fluorescence emitter with maximum accuracy, precision and speed

Richard Zare: Making Materials That Hate Water To Love Water: The Transformative Power of Chemistry

Is creativity important in science?