Inspirational

Article on Mario Capecchi, a Ute professor who won the Nobel Price for Medicine this year.
http://healthcare.utah.edu/capecchi/rags_research.pdf

"Capecchi credits his love of pursuing big questions to James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, who was his PhDsupervisor at Harvard University.[...]But Capecchi’s relationship with his famously outspoken mentor wasn’t without friction. He recalls the time they disagreed over the results of an experiment,on the rates at which the subunits of ribosomes, the cellular bodies that make proteins, come together and separate. Capecchi was not convinced by the data and suspected that an unknown protein might be involved. He wanted to repeat the work;Watson thought the case was closed. When the argument escalated, Capecchi threw glass plates bearing key data into the bin, ensuring that he would not have to publish the results. Colleagues ducked for cover as Watson exploded in fury and showered Capecchi with expletives. “I came that close to being thrown out of the lab,”Capecchi says. But he was right — a few years later a ribosomal dissociation factor was discovered"

Nice.