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John Chung
Director, BioMolecular NMR Facility
I was in bed at 7AM, when the phone rang. It was a
former postdoc here at TSRI who now works in New Jersey
who'd gotten wind of the news on the East Coast right
about then.
It woke me up—that's for sure. I hurried into
the lab since I figured that there'd be some reaction
from the community to the announcement. Some people
from Union Tribune came out to take photos with
Dr. Wuthrich's postdocs.
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Wolfgang Peti
Research Associate, Wüthrich lab
It was 3 o'clock in the morning, and I was at home.
One of my best friends called me from Cambridge [England]
and told me.
I wasn't sure if he was joking, so I called my parents
in Austria and asked them to check it out on the internet.
I thought, I have to wake up the other guys, too,
so I called them. Unfortunately, they were asleep and
didn't wake up when I tried to ring. That was the only
disappointment of the day!
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Linda Columbus
Research Associate, Wüthrich lab
I was at home, and I knew they were announcing the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry, so I checked the web [as
soon as I got up]. I screamed to my husband, "You are
not going to believe this..."
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Torsten Herrmann
Research Associate, Wüthrich lab
I heard about this award early in the morning. I was
sitting outside, and I saw a note on my car. At first
I thought the police had come by or something.
The note was from this guy who was living in my apartment
complex, and it said that Kurt won the prize. I was
totally surprised, but I wasn't sure this guy was not
playing a joke.
I called Switzerland, and [then] I was sure that it
was absolutely true. I immediately went to my roommate
and knocked loudly on his door—he was afraid that
it might be a fire—and then we sat on the balcony
with coffee discussing and laughing because it [came
as] a total surprise.
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Touraj Etezady
Graduate Student, Wüthrich lab
I heard someone knocking on the door, and I thought,
"My God, what is happening? An earthquake?!"
Then Torsten came in and said, "You won't believe
it—Kurt won the Nobel prize!"
I couldn't believe it. We started to scream. It was
unbelievable. He deserves it—he has worked so hard
for it.
I remember back home [in Zürich] at the university.
In the first lecture I had with him, he took off his
belt and showed us how protein folding works. I am happy
for him.
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