Laureate origin stories: Adam Smith explores what factors make a Nobel Prize laureate
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Laurets Take Things Apart
There's quite a few Laurets who used to play with explosives as children. Lou Ignaro, the medicine Lauret, perhaps took it further than anybody else in that he eventually blew up a whole pier,. And then there was a physics Lauret called Richard Taylor, who worked on fundamental particles. He actually was missing the top two joints of his index finger, I think it was, on his right hand. They'd been blown off in a basement chemistry experiment when he was a kid. So taking risks, smashing stuff up, that was very much part of the discovery journey for many young people who turned out to be Laurets.
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