Physiology or Medicine

Interview

Interview with 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine John O’Keefe, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your awarded work in easy-to-understand terms. One of the fundamental things that humans and animals do, is find their way around the world. So, to do that they need to know…

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Interview

Interview with James P. Allison on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What triggered your interest in researching a new cancer therapy? My personal experience with cancer did indeed get my attention, let’s put it that way. My mother died when I was about ten years old of lymphoma. I was…

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Interview

Interview with William C. Campbell on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What brought you to science? William C. Campbell: I came to science I think later than a lot of people certainly nowadays, because I know that I had not heard of science until I was thirteen/fourteen years old because…

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Biographical

I remember reading this big book, The Wonders of Life on Earth, when I was eleven or twelve. It said bird migration was controlled by some kind of internal timer, some kind of clock. Some birds, it explained, use the position of the sun to orient their migration, and the clocks in their heads are…

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Biographical

My parents and Germany: tough times My parents were born and raised in Germany. My mother Hilda was born in 1914 and came from a secular, quite comfortable family in Berlin. Her father, my grandfather, Magnus Sonntag had a pharmacy, which still exists today with the same name and in the same location (Marien-Apotheke, Wilhelmsaue…

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Biographical

J effrey C. Hall was born in Brooklyn, New York, near the end of World War II (in Europe). His parents, fortunately for him, were among rare young adults in the U.S. who achieved college educations during the Depression. Hall’s father used his higher education credentials to become a journalist, his mother a school teacher.…

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