From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 17 May 2006 - 14:34:26 GMT
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>IMHO you need to do a bit more reading than what you have and then think a
>bit as well. Who knows, being less grumpy you may even get a Nobel prize!
>;-) (I have spoken with or have had email discussions with some and they all
>seem 'positive' rather than grumpy - perhaps the prize 'uplifts' them or
>maybe their positive attitude puts them in position to win the prize! ;-))
I only properly met a Nobel Prize winner once. It was actually about
3 years before he won. I was a student and he was judging a poster
contest. He looked at my poster and said "That's not an
experiment". Rather taken aback, I mumbled that erm yes, I thought
it was. "No", he snapped, "that's not an experiment, it's an
observation", turned on his heel and stomped off. I once passed
another one in a corridor - he looked very miserable (you hadn't been
emailing him again had you Chris?).
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