onsdag 2 december 2009

Lunch with a Nobel Prize Winner

Today I ate lunch in the cafeteria of the department. I noticed a journalist sitting in the corner and interviewing an indish looking guy with glasses and greyish hair. I sat down, took my sandwich and started eating. I wondered what kind of interviews someone would have in the cafeteria of a department like ours. After a while the indish looking guy left his interviewing partner and passed me. I realized that his face was familiar to me, but I did not see from where... it must have been TV or newspaper. Then I remembered the words from the lady from the administration office, "there are a couple of Nobel Prize Winners working here". Well, that was it. Wasn't that guy this year's Nobel Prize Winner, this Venk-whatever his name was, that has been researching ribosomes?! Back in my lab, I started googling and the autofinder helped me to find the name: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - and there his picture popped up, the guy that I just met in the restaurant.

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