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My father, Ju Chin Chu, came to the United States in 1943 to continue his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in chemical engineering, and two years later, my mother, Ching Chen Li, joined him to study economics. A generation earlier, my mother’s father earned his advanced degrees in civil engineering at Cornell while…

I was born on April 1, 1933 in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, originally from Tangier, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition. In fact, our name, Cohen-Tannoudji, means simply the Cohen family from Tangiers. The Algerian Jews obtained…

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Stanley B. Prusiner, born May 28, 1942 Address: Department of Neurology, HSE-781, University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143-0518, USA   Academic Education 1964 A.B. (cum laude), University of Pennsylvania, The College 1968 M.D., University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 1968-69 Internship in Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA…

Stanley B. Prusiner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1997 King Carl Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Distinguished Guests, Tonight’s awarding of the Nobel Prizes and this elegant Banquet are a grand celebration of science and culture. These events honor the vision, courage, and wisdom of Alfred Nobel, a superb scientist in his own right. And…

Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 1997, by Rae McGrath on behalf of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines Your Majesties, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Almost exactly fifteen years ago somewhere close to the Thai-Cambodian border, Tun Channareth was lying helpless in a minefield, both legs shattered by an anti-personnel…