Giants of research share how they found their calling.
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Medicine
“I told myself that I will save the patients the day after tomorrow” – Interview with Masashi Yanagisawa, University of Tsukuba / University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Citation Laureate 2023
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Chemistry
“I want to explore things that I don’t know yet” – Interview with Kazunori Kataoka, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion / Innovation Center of NanoMedicine – Citation Laureate 2023
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Medicine
“The best thing that I could do is become obsolete” – Interview with Emmanuel Mignot, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University – Citation Laureate 2023
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Chemistry
“Work with those who know things that you do not know” – Interview with Shankar Balasubramanian, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute / University of Cambridge – Citation Laureate 2023
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Chemistry
“Experiencing that ‘click’ in perception is an amazing pleasure” – Michael Elowitz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Caltech – Citation Laureate 2023
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Medicine
“There could not be a better time to enter into science” – Interview with Carl June, University of Pennsylvania – Citation Laureate 2023
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Chemistry
“Don’t try to become an influencer, try to become an expert” – Interview with James Collins, MIT / Wyss Institute / Broad Institute – Citation Laureate 2023
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Physics
“Trust your gut – choose a research topic that you’re passionate about” – Interview with Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan – Citation Laureate 2023
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Medicine
“Science works best as a team sport” – Interview with Clifford Saper, Harvard Medical School – Citation Laureate 2023
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Chemistry
“I dreamed about being a chemist from childhood” – Interview with Vladimir Torchilin, Northeastern University – Citation Laureate 2023
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Medicine
“There’s no greater stimulus to work hard and try to do your best than seeing cancer patients daily” – Interview with Steven Rosenberg, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute – Citation Laureate 2023
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Citation Laureates 2022 on perseverance – Interview with Immanuel Bloch, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, and James A. Robinson, University of Chicago
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Citation Laureates 2022 on encouragement – Interview with Mary-Claire King, University of Washington School of Medicine, and Andrew J. Oswald, University of Warwick
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Citation Laureates 2022 on curiosity – Interview with Stuart H. Orkin, Harvard Medical School / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Zhenan Bao, Stanford University
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Citation Laureates 2022 on being bold – Interview with Richard A. Easterlin, University of Southern California, and Daniel G. Nocera, Harvard University
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Citation Laureates 2022 on Passion in science – Interview with Virginia Man-Yee Lee, University of Pennsylvania, and Samuel Bowles, Santa Fe Institute / UMass Amherst
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Citation Laureates 2022 on Inspiration – Interview with Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and E. Peter Greenberg, University of Washington
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Medicine
“To a scientist, fortune is a gift that comes from hard work” – Interview with Dr. Ho Wang Lee, Korea University
“Most original research is a little bit about being off the beaten path” – Interview with David J. Teece, University of California, Berkeley
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Chemistry
“Collaborate. You cannot do excellent research all by yourself.” – Interview with Taeghwan Hyeon, Seoul National University; Institute for Basic Science
“You’ve to look at a problem from different points of view.” – Interview with David A. Dickey, North Carolina State University
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Medicine
“Objective interpretation of data is very important.” – Interview with Yusuke Nakamura, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research; University of Tokyo; University of Chicago
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Economics
“Think new thoughts, but follow through and do the work.” – Interview with Steven T. Berry, Yale University
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Chemistry
“Try to maximize the creativity and potential of an idea.” – Interview with John F. Hartwig, University of California Berkeley