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...Harvard decides on Cech as its leader, it will have to lure the Nobel laureate away from a plum post atop the nation’s fourth-richest private research center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI...
...Technology and biology really need to be working more shoulder-to-shoulder,” Cech said in a 2004 interview posted on the Nobel Prize Web site. The problem with universities, Cech said, is that people “who need to really talk to each other” often find themselves “in separate places...
Cech’s interest in building a collaborative research center has roots in his postdoctoral years here in Cambridge. In an autobiography posted on the Nobel Web site, he writes about how he and his biochemist wife Carol “enjoyed being part of the interactive scientific scene at MIT,” where he worked in the mid-1970s...
...Grinnell, Cech majored in chemistry, but he describes an undergraduate experience steeped in the liberal arts. “I was to derive as much enjoyment studying Homer’s Odyssey, Dante’s Inferno, and Constitutional History as Chemistry,” he writes in his Nobel autobiography...
Cech won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery in 1989, splitting the award with Yale’s Sidney Altman...