I was born in San Diego, California in 1961. My brother Mark was born in January of the previous year. My father Kenneth Greider was a physicist who had recently graduated with a Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. My mother Jean Foley Greider also had received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Botany.…

by David M. States During the 1930s, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research (KWImF) was one of the most dynamic scientific research laboratories in all of Germany. One of its research directors during this time, Otto Meyerhof, had already won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology. Two others, Richard Kuhn and Walther Bothe, were…

by Jan Lindsten Prologue became an internationally well known biomedical scientist during the first decade of the 20th century. A series of works published in 1910 (“the seven little devils”) attracted special attention because he could demonstrate that “the absorption of oxygen and elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion and…

Links to other sites Videos Sir Tim Hunt talks about his research. A video from London Research Institute, UK. Tim Hunt delivers his Nobel Laureate Revisiting Lecture 2014 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Title of talk: The control of progression into, through and out of mitosis.

Links to other sites from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Videos Video lecture by Elizabeth Blackburn: Part 1: The Roles of Telomeres and Telomerase Video lecture by Elizabeth Blackburn: Part 2: Telomeres and Telomerase in Human Stem Cells and in Cancer https://youtu.be/zqMoDdHWFBA Video lecture by Elizabeth Blackburn: Part 3: Stress, Telomeres and Telomerase in Humans…

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Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize by Bengt Jansson This article was published on 29 October 1998. Summary In 1936, the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz introduced a surgical operation, prefrontal leukotomy, which after an initial period came to be used particularly in the treatment of schizophrenia. The operation, later called lobotomy, consisted in incisions…

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Family Background John Bertrand Gurdon (JBG), born 2 October 1933, was brought up in a comfortable home by his parents (fig.1) on the Surrey/Hampshire border in a village, Frensham in South England, endowed with a large amount of National Trust heathland and ponds. His mother, Marjorie Byass, was from an East Yorkshire farming family. Brought…

This autobiographical sketch of a life in science mainly focuses on a question I am now often asked – when and how did you know you wanted to be a scientist, and how did you become one? I am also asked by young scientists for advice I could impart from my own experiences and observations.…