David Weatherall: Lasker Award for pioneer in molecular medicine.

摘要

A few minutes with David Weatherall are all it takes to be reassured that for all the honours, the regius professorship, and the knighthood there is nothing remotely pompous about this man. The talk is simple, direct, and liberally spiced with irreverent accounts of people and places encountered during decades in medicine, many of them in its front ranks. Weatherall is a great one for anecdotes; for the human detail that spices the bland facts. Speaking of his teachers as an undergraduate at Liverpool University he mentions Harry Sheehan of Sheehan's syndrome fame. "Every Saturday morning we had what was called the meat class in which he demonstrated the week's pathology. He was continually puffing his pipe and the ash used to fall on the specimens with a gentle sizzling. I've never forgotten that. But a brilliant teacher, actually."