Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
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Nobel Prize-winning virologist who discovered the hepatitis B virus and developed its vaccine; later became Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and director of N
On the island
Eight records
It it's reminiscent of my experience working in the space program in my role as director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
I lived in well, initially in New York and then for the last thirty five years or so in Pennsylvania. But I've spent a lot of time in California and I've always enjoyed it there. And it's in California that I've been working for uh NASA.
City of New OrleansFavourite
back in the forties, fifties, uh people went places by train. And actually I've traveled on the City of New Orleans.
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
at least in my understanding was the number of the underground that I used to take to go to medical school.
it reminds me of the many years I spent in Britain and particularly in uh Oxford.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Philadelphia Orchestra and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
My wife's great grandfather was a sergeant in the Union Army and uh for for the last thirty years or so we've had a farm along with some uh partners in western Maryland, which is on the site of one of the major battles, the Battle of Antietam.
reminds me of a funeral that we had for one of my students at Balleyeli. As you said earlier, that was one of the happy periods of our life, but ... There's uh sadness with all uh happiness, and uh this young man died and ... They played the pipes at his funeral.
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
I like Bach uh a lot. It uh in funny ways it reminds me of Dixieland as well. It's it's well, you you have this kind of ordered ... Presentation of the music. You can be analytical about Box uh Bach's music. And as uh scientists, you know, they they're uh the way we do things is to be analytical. Take a big problem, breaking it down into little ones, study the little ones. Tough part is putting it back together again.
In conversation
Presenter asks
3:15What's it feel like to have saved millions of lives?
Well, it feels great. And it's uh good to think of it uh from time to time. You know, one tends to uh say, Well, that ha that's happened. You know, what's gonna happen next?
Presenter asks
9:27Did [the Great Depression] leave you with a fear of financial insecurity?
I think my generation are kind of still parsimonious, you know. So I got the idea early on that I'd have to be prepared to work hard and uh to to get what I wanted to. On the other hand, I n I never had any great ambitions to make uh a great deal of money. I mean, I liked the idea of having it and being comfortable, but ... I wasn't uh driven by having a large amount.
Presenter asks
13:32When did you decide to turn to medicine?
I suppose it took me a while to realize it, but I did think I'd kind of do well in physics and math. ... I'd led a pretty uh I wouldn't say a social, but I'd sort of lived inside myself a good deal more. And then uh the time I spent in the Navy, you know, you you had to interact with a lot more people. ... So I realized that it was kinda interesting dealing with people.
The keepsakes
Presenter asks
15:10Why did you decide to [go into research science]?
I'd always had a sort of ... understanding with myself, I would do research. And I thought I might get bored, you know, if I continued with clinical work. Um it's um mind you, it's not boring doing that, but I thought I'd find research more exciting.
Presenter asks
23:32How long did it take you between getting that reaction from the Australian [Aborigine] and realizing that this in fact was this killer virus?
I'd say about two years, let's say, or three years. Let's say about three years.
“America was the golden land, you know, and it's proven to be that. That is, it is a place of opportunity.”
“One of the exciting things about the tropics when you're looking at biology or human responses to it is its enormous variation and the differences in the way that people respond.”
“I mean, just living requires that [adaptation]. On a desert island or not.”