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Laboratory Quotes

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These laboratory quotes come from researchers describing the rooms and setups behind their work, from a two-room radioactivity lab that later expanded to a mountain station built for cleaner experiments. See First quotes for more milestone reflections.

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On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had...

Quotes by Werner Arber

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The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

Quotes by Walther Bothe

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I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.

Quotes by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued my close collaboration with Charles Gilbert on the circuitry of primary visual cortex.

Quotes by Torsten Wiesel

Attempted Quotes

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I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were...

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

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After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

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What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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I joined Bell Laboratories at Crawford Hill in 1963 as part of A. B. Crawford's Radio Research department in R. Kompfner's laboratory.

Quotes by Robert Woodrow Wilson

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In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

Quotes by Robert Robinson

Chemical Quotes

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I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.

Quotes by Robert Edwards

Others recall early postdoctoral years spent learning inside someone else's lab before striking out on their own. Browse Chemical quotes or Attempted quotes.