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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Scientist, Fisherman
1893-1986
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BigHook2001
is named for a story that the late Albert Szent-Gyorgyi told.
Szent-Gyorgyi was a Woods Hole scientist. Before he came to
Woods Hole he won the Nobel Prize for discovering Vitamin C.
When he came to Woods Hole, he found out a lot about muscle contraction,
that is, how biology turns carbon and oxygen into physical force.
Then he worked on cancer, that is, how cells decide when to divide.
Szent-Gyorgyi
was a fisherman too. He said that if he was going to fish
at all, he was going to use a big hook. He didn't want to
be bothered with little fish -- or little ideas -- that couldn't
get their mouths around his hook. Besides, he said, imagining
catching a really big one was vastly more exciting than the reality
of catching little ones.
During these
three days, let's fish with a big hook.
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