“As a computer scientist I found it rather puzzling that we can get a smartphone with GPS, Wi-Fi, cellular, accelerometer and multiple cores on a device that is battery-powered and that can be placed in our pockets, but medical devices are still really big,” said Chan, a PhD student ...
He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg. Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold Neurospora ...