Endeavors magazine: A circle of friends

A circle of friends

Several hours after geneticist Oliver Smithies received a call from Stockholm informing him he and two other scientists had won the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for their work in gene targeting, colleagues and admirers gathered to honor Smithies with an impromptu celebration at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Smithies said he was happy to have made so many other people so happy. In this photo, he is just below the center of the frame, speaking to a gentleman wearing a suit. end of story

features:

a life at the bench: in the 1930s, oliver smithies was tinkering with telescopes and radio-controlled boats. last october, the nobel committee called. [people]
the bug zappers: busting bacteria’s resistance to drugs. [biochemistry]
mites among the machines: day and night, children toiled in north carolina’s textile mills. [history]
tiny steps on a tightrope: mapping the structure of an ancient protein. [chemistry]
meet the bucket brigade: the J-school rescues a paper in peril. [journalism]
guatemala city’s dirtiest secret: a volunteer steers scavengers’ kids out of the dump. [public health]
why be happy? how positive emotions do us good. [psychology]
the tangled roots of OCD: can science sort out obsessive-compulsive disorder? [health & med.]
where the trail has led: carolina’s stories of american indians. [social sciences]
in hot water: coral reefs lose their cool. [marine sciences]
the magic man: daniel wallace became a big-time novelist one sentence at a time. [literature]
the reasons for rebellion: the real causes of unrest in iran. [political science]
the mouse mess: have we bred some of the medical value out of lab mice? [health & med.]

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