Signal Transduction: Evolution of an Idea (Nobel Lecture)

摘要

I was born in 1925, a time when there were no talking movies, when radio was just emerging as a popular listening device, newspapers printed important information, and libraries were sources of both pleasure and learning. My father's grocery store (above which we lived) was a community center where people from blocks away would come for their groceries and to gossip. We knew or knew about everyone in our neighborhood. In that atmosphere I grew up as a yound man feeling the warmth of this community. Retrospectively, I have come to realize how important this long-gone community and the intense human relationships have been to my development as a scientise.