6th December – Day 6
On a recent trip to a blood-brain barrier conference hosted by Trinity College, Dublin, two of our early career researchers, Daniel Cohn and Joe Chouhan, had an opportunity to mingle amongst world leaders in the field of the Blood brain Barrier and both learnt a host of new information from across the UK and Ireland.
An additional bonus of their trip was the discovery of William Sealy Gosset. Gosset, whilst working at Guinness, came up with the t-test to ensure quality was maintained between batches of the famous stout. Due to the policy of Guinness at the time, Gosset published his work under a psuedonym “Student”, and so was created the Student t-test which many of us use to this day in parts of our scientific lives.
This info may be handy for the annual Christmas Trivial Pursuit game on science!
P.S. The Guinness is better in Ireland!!”
DECEMBER 6 – Where Guinness and Science collide!