Giants of research share how they found their calling.
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Medicine
“Collaboration is essential for making progress in science” – Interview with Rob Knight, University of California San Diego – Citation Laureate 2023
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Economics
“Working in the social sciences, you can really see tangible impacts at the end of the day” – Interview with Raj Chetty, William A. Ackman Professor of Economics and Director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard University – Citation Laureate 2023
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Chemistry
“My passion is using nature to build functional materials that benefit society” – Interview with Karen L. Wooley, Distinguished Professor and W.T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry, with courtesy appointments in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering / Director of the TAMU Laboratory for Synthetic-Biologic Interactions, at Texas A&M University – Citation Laureate 2023
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Medicine
“The ultimate satisfaction is seeing patients benefit from this novel approach to immunotherapy” – Interview with Michel Sadelain, Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair and Director of the Center for Cell Engineering, at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center – Citation Laureate 2023
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Physics
“New ideas come from crossing traditional boundaries” – Interview with Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University – Citation Laureate 2023
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Economics
“We need to prize our cities rather than fear them” – Interview with Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University – Citation Laureate 2023
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Physics
“I’m impassioned by solving challenges that really will have impact and can change the world” – Interview with Stuart S. P. Parkin, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics / Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg – Citation Laureate 2023
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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