Arvid Carlsson
Pharmacologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2000
Then at the time of retirement, that's a big problem in Sweden, as a retired person, because then you are pushed off. I was fortunate even from that point of view because I got a very good research collaboration agreement with Upjohn, the American Upjohn company. So that could help me to go on with my research.
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Adam Smith, Interview at the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach, 9 April 2008
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But I continued to think that illness happened to patients and not to doctors, even though I was now retired. Twenty months after I had my brain scanned, I was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. I had had typical symptoms for years, steadily getting worse, but it took me a long time before I could bring myself to ask for help. I thought I was being stoical when in reality I was being a coward.
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Edited extract from And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, published by Vintage, The Guardian, 13 August 2022
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Sylvia Earle
Marine biologist and oceanographer; first woman to serve as Chief Scientist of NOAA
I wish that I could be around 15 years from now, 100 years ... .