Mary Joy N. De Leon

03/10/2026

“Gratitude turns an ordinary night into a beautiful memory.” Walking home through the city feeling blessed and thankful for love and purpose. 🙏🏽❤️

In the middle of this busy city, these are the moments that feel the most magical. ✨🗽❤️
&I

10/08/2025

2025 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Mary E. Brunkow was born in 1961.

She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, Princeton, USA. She is currently senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, USA.

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07/13/2025

The youngest Nobel Prize laureate ever, Malala Yousafzai, was only 17 years old at the time of the award.

She was born on 12 July 1997 in Pakistan and was named after an Afghan poet, Malalai of Maiwand. Her father ensured that she received proper schooling and educated her at his private school. He added her name to the family register and she was allowed to stay up late and debate politics. From a young age Malala dreamt about becoming a doctor.

Malala had a gift for public speaking and she began to speak up for girls’ rights to education. In 2009, Yousafzai started an anonymous blog for BBC Urdu. After her identity was revealed, the New York Times made a short film about her and her fight for education for all.

As Yousafzai became more known, a death threat was issued against her. In 2012, Malala was shot by a masked gunman on a school bus. He threatened to kill all students on the school bus if she didn’t identify herself. The gunman also shot two of Malala’s friends.

After intensive rehabilitation in the United Kingdom, she survived the attack. Fearlessly and with determination, Yousafzai kept fighting for girls’ right to education. Today, she is a role model for many young girls.

In 2014, Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize for her bravery and work to ensure girls’ rights to education.

Learn more: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/yousafzai/facts/

07/13/2025

Celebrating my 14th year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉🙏🏽❤️🩷

06/22/2025

Scientist, Barbara McClintock was awarded the 1983 medicine prize by the Nobel Prize “for her discovery of mobile genetic elements.”
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“I was just so interested in what I was doing I could hardly wait to get up in the morning and get at it.”

Pioneering scientist Barbara McClintock made discovery after discovery over the course of her long career in cytogenetics. But she is best remembered for discovering genetic transposition, “jumping genes”. Understanding the phenomenon is still fundamental to understanding genetics, as well as related concepts in medicine, evolutionary biology, and more.

She was awarded the 1983 medicine prize “for her discovery of mobile genetic elements.”

Read more about McClintock: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1983/mcclintock/facts/

“I was just so interested in what I was doing I could hardly wait to get up in the morning and get at it.”

Pioneering scientist Barbara McClintock made discovery after discovery over the course of her long career in cytogenetics. But she is best remembered for discovering genetic transposition, “jumping genes”. Understanding the phenomenon is still fundamental to understanding genetics, as well as related concepts in medicine, evolutionary biology, and more.

She was awarded the 1983 medicine prize “for her discovery of mobile genetic elements.”

Read more about McClintock: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1983/mcclintock/facts/

06/22/2025

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06/22/2025

"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."

On International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict we share the words of Nadia Murad, awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.

Herself a victim of sexual violence and abuse in war, Murad managed to flee and now works to help women and children who are victims of abuse and human trafficking.

She tells her story in the hope that others will not have to endure what she has.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/2xlk9uH

04/10/2025

11/26/2024

You will succeed in life if you find a job that is like play…
For the greatest benefit to humankind…

10/11/2024

Wangari Maathai was a Nobel Prize laureate of many firsts: the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, the first female professor in Kenya and the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

She was a committed environmentalist and founded the Green Belt Movement, which led to the planting of millions of trees.

Today will will announce the 2024 peace prize laureate.