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PSA: You can get a C in organic chemistry and still be a doctor.
— Jack Turban MD (@jack_turban) February 25, 2020
and if you’re *really* careful, you can get a D in Chemistry and win the Nobel Prize!
“Chemistry was my worst subject in high school! I imagined my chemistry teacher aspirating his cornflakes when he found out his worst student had won the Nobel Prize!”
Peter Agre was awarded the 2003 Chemistry Prize. pic.twitter.com/h2AaNmR945
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) August 4, 2019
“What the heck does Mom want? Oh, Mom probably doesn’t understand the time difference, she’s in Dallas right now and is probably still thinking it’s California time…maybe she just wants me to go check on her cats…” A litany of mundane explanations ran through James Bailey’s bleary mind at 3:23 a.m. on October 3 when he was awakened from a deep sleep by three phone calls from his mother’s cell number. Bailey silenced his phone for the first two, getting grumpier with each ring. Call #3 did the trick. He picked up the phone and said groggily, “What do you want?” With great excitement and maybe a tinge of impatience, his mother said, “I wish you had picked up your phone, but I just won the Nobel Prize.”
Karen Weintraub (Scientific American)Two men are recognized for basic research that unleashed the immune system against cancer, becoming a new pillar of therapy
Jeffrey Hall, a retired professor at Brandeis University, shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries elucidating how our internal body clock works. He was honored along with Michael Young and his close collaborator Michael Roshbash. Hall said in an interview from his home in rural Maine that he collaborated with Roshbash because they shared...