“We fed that mouse an unknown amount of an unknown substance that might not be there, and we watched what happened. Prof William Campbell receiving the Nobel medal from King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm in December 2015Perhaps the most unexpected bit is winning that Nobel Prize in 2015 when aged 85 and well into an enjoyable retirement. “The Nobel news brought me rapidly back out of it, and I soon discovered that being a Nobel laureate is not for the faint of heart. He won the Nobel Prize with Japanese scientist Satoshi Omura for work in defeating the roundworm, which causes tropical diseases including river blindness affecting millions of people in developing countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa. He developed an interest in painting as a recreation that was to become an expression of his scientific fascination with parasites.

Source: The Irish Times June 25, 2020 04:52 UTC