I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.