Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Oct. 7th, 2002 03:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotzThe Academy has just announced thatthis year's prize is awarded to US scientists Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz, and to John Sulston, the founder and former director of the Sanger Center, my workplace, "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death".
I don't know John Sulston, but obviously various people I know do, to various extents, and he seems unanimously admired not just for his work (including, lets not forget, also being one of the leading advocates for, and possibly the saviour of, the Human Genome Project) but also for being relaxed and unassuming in the face of any and all temptations to get above himself.
I don't know John Sulston, but obviously various people I know do, to various extents, and he seems unanimously admired not just for his work (including, lets not forget, also being one of the leading advocates for, and possibly the saviour of, the Human Genome Project) but also for being relaxed and unassuming in the face of any and all temptations to get above himself.
