Oct

10

Sir John Gurdon, who just won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, apparently didn't do very well in science as an undergrad. In fact, his first foray into zoology was quite disastrous. A copy of his report card where the teacher noted, his idea of becoming a scientist "quite ridiculous," can be found here.

Although I never won a Nobel Prize, and never will, I know what it's like to absolutely flunk chemistry in high school (I eventually raised the grade to a C-) then go on to major in it as an undergrad, then a grad. There are some lessons applicable to markets, to learn from Gurdon's travails, but I will leave it up to the reader to draw their own conclusions.


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