I have been thinking a lot this week about the power of curiosity and its ability to drive major change in the long run.

This past week, the Nobel Prizes were announced for the science of quantum theory, click chemistry and biorthogonal chemistry, and genetic research on extinct hominids and human evolution. As a physicist, I know the well-deserved Nobel in physics better than the others, but I have read quite a few articles on the others as well.

All of these prizes have a couple of things in common…