1989

Biographical

My father, Georg, had studied law at the Universität Berlin for some years, and in the first World War had been an artillery officer. He was of a philosophical bend of mind and a man of independent opinions. In the depth of the depression he just managed to make a living in real estate. When…

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Banquet speech

Harold E. Varmus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1989 The literature of my native tongue had its beginnings in your traditional stories, set down in Anglo-Saxon, a language descended from yours, and ancestral to mine. One of the great remnants of this early work, the epic poem Beowulf, teaches the importance of the…

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