Archived chat: a discussion with 2019 Nobel laureate Dr. William Kaelin
Dr. William Kaelin of Harvard Medical School went to sleep at his usual bedtime on Oct. 6, but any hope of a peaceful rest was interrupted by a vivid dream: of waking up, seeing “5:45” on his clock, and knowing that the Nobel committee had not phoned him with good news. (Such calls tend to come about an hour earlier, Eastern time, or 11 a.m. in Stockholm.) But when Kaelin woke up for real at 2:30, he realized he had been dreaming, and went back to sleep.
When his phone rang at 4:50 and Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee, told him he had won the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine (along with two other scientists), all Kaelin could think was, “Is this the dream part or the awake part?”, he told a roomful of colleagues and reporters later that morning at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he has his lab. “It was surreal, like an out-of-body experience.”
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