The embryonic cell lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Updated 2025-07-11 +Created 2024-12-04
Presumably John's 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine paper.
Hobert Lab just uploaded a print and that's it: www.hobertlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Sulston_embryonic_lineage_1983.pdf. Hero.
Monumental 55 page beast, presumably the culmination of many years of work.
www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-dean-8b212555/ Joined Google in 1999.
Cute dynamic duo: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge They were at Google in 2000 at least.
Good mentions at The man who loved numbers, notably youtu.be/PqP2c5xNaTU?t=349 where Bela Bollobas, friend of Littlewood, talks about their collaboration.
Some good mentions of their dynamic duo status at The Race for the Double Helix. Their chemistry and love are palpable during their joint interviews.
Very clearly, Francis is the charismatic one, and James is the nerd.
Enrico Fermi's father.
Pieter van Musschenbroek is the perfect example that if your surname is too complicated, things you invent will not be named after you!
Good ones:
- Moving Still (1980); development of film technology
- Race for the Superconductor (1988): recounts the feeding frenzy for high-temperature superconductivity after the Swiss found a ceramic superconductor.
- The Proof (1997): Fermat's last theorem
- Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold (2008): cryogenics
There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.