Nobel Peace Prize, 1970
James WatsonOscar Arias Sanchez
Peter C. Doherty
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1996
Paul D. Boyer
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1997
Nobel Peace Prize, 1987
Paul Berg
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1980 Phillip
A. Sharp
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1993
Douglas D. Osheroff
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1996
Marshall Nirenberg
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1968
Richard E. Smalley
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1996
Edward Lewis
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
Sydney Brenner
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002
Eric Wieschaus
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
Leon N. Cooper
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1972
Edmond H. Fischer
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1992
George A. Olah
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1994
Christian de Duve
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1974
Mario Molina
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995
Arthur Kornberg
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1959
Donald A. Glaser
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1960
Roger Guillemin
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1977
Sheldon Glashow
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
Jean-Marie Lehn
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1987
Richard J. Roberts,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1993
4 comments:
Missing from the list: Dr. Nee O. Luddite, Paranoid Q. Rifkin. , and Prof. Frank N. Foodphobia.
The Luddites remind me of Bastiat's "The Petition of the Candlemakers"; the group that wanted to mandate that everybody's windows be blocked in order to prevent the sun from coming in. The sun apparently was much too stiff of a competition.
While Dr. James Watson supports genetic work in crops, he tends a bit cautious:
"This [genetic engineering] is a matter far too important to be left solely in the hands of the scientific and medical communities. The belief that...science always moves forward represents a form of laissez-faire nonsense dismally reminiscent of the credo that American business if left to itself will solve everybody's problems. Just as the success of a corporate body in making money need not set the human condition ahead, neither does every scientific advance automatically make our lives more 'meaningful.' "
Caution is fine, BB. But when you have millions of people in Africa going blind every year and we could fix it with this golden rice stuff, I say throw caution to the wind at that point.
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