“In science, if you assume you’re going to win a Nobel Prize, you’re in the wrong profession.”
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Berlin The German biochemist Thomas Südhof has been investigating how brain cells communicate with one another since the 1980s. The results of his research form the basis for therapies, for example against Alzheimer’s. In 2013 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. The 66-year-old has been working in the USA since 1983, currently at Stanford University.
At the presentation of the German digital prize “The Spark” in Berlin, Südhof spoke about his fascination with the human brain, the importance of new technologies in science, and explained why US research is more dynamic than German research.
Read the full interview here:
Mr. Südhof, In 2013 you were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Was that your motivation?
In science, if you assume you’re going to win a Nobel Prize, you’re in the wrong profession. You have to have fun discovering things and seeing new things. Science is hard bread, and if you don’t enjoy it, you won’t succeed.
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