Svante Pääbo: Nobel Prize Conversations
Nobel Prize Conversations
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How to Promote Inquisitiveness in Research
The liver experiment shows an inquisitiveness, which is special, I think. It's interesting that you didn't take what you were told as absolute written truth. You had to go out and find out for yourself. What did your PhD supervisor think of this direction of research? Well, at the time when I started this, I had rather big respect of him, so I would not tell him about this. So this was done secretly in the lab, just among my friends, more and more students who know about it. Some other people found out about it because that liver started smelling pretty badly after a while. And then only when the results were there and I was writing a manuscript about
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