I bet you never knew that the guy who developed the lobotomy (also known as the leucotomy), was given a Nobel prize in medicine.
Also, I find that the descriptors of the Nobel Prizes over the years have become significantly less colorful:
1901: "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths"
2007: "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
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sounds like westchester is lively today. glad you are having some qt with the internet and thanks for the little tidbits of info.
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