People on the record here who work in science and medicine, and what they were asked.
10 people · 293 answers
Biochemist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2023
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2023
When I was 16 years old, I read the book from Hans Selye. Hans Selye is a Canadian scientist, but he was Hungarian so his book was translated to Hungarian.
Physician; founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
Yes. One is a translation of Lao Tzu by a man named Witter Bynner. It’s called The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu . It’s beautiful translations.
NASA astronaut; commander of the International Space Station
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2020
I'm looking at my bookshelf in my office here, certainly The Right Stuff. I've given that to people.
Economist and philosopher; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1998
It was not long after Kenneth Arrow's path-breaking study of social choice, Social Choice and Individual Values, was published in New York in 1951, that my brilliant co-student Sukhamoy…
Cook and inventor; co-author of Modernist Cuisine, co-founder of ChefSteps
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
I think a lot of them will probably be in the cooking space. Definitely On Food and Cooking . I’ve gifted that a lot. My career starts with that book in many ways.
Conservation scientist; chief executive of Conservation International
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
Yeah. Tim and I have talked about this a little bit. So, for me, books are all about the moment and the emotion that I’m in and the person I’m giving it to is in.
Physician; founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
Yes. Well, one of them I’m holding in my hand right now. And my daughter turned me onto these. She’s now 28. Computer glasses, which I got on Amazon. I don’t know. They were less than $20.
Cook and inventor; co-author of Modernist Cuisine, co-founder of ChefSteps
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
I’ll give two answers. I bought a new electric teakettle. I used to have all the stovetop kettles.
Conservation scientist; chief executive of Conservation International
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
That’s a really hard question for me because I don’t buy a lot of stuff. I’m a total snob when it comes to the stuff I own. And the reason for that is because I travel incessantly.
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
Recorded · Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine · 1985
It was a brilliant idea: You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be.
Scottish organic chemist
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2022
I don’t know. That’s a terrible answer I realise, and everyone wants a nice straight forward answer.
American physician-scientist
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2000
about 95% of the experiments we do are total failures, and that’s because we’re out there on the leading edge of what’s possible, and most of the time it isn’t quite possible.
Psychologist; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 2002
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2002
I got quite nice results in my one-question studies, but never wrote up any of the work, because I had set myself impossible standards: in order not to pollute the literature, I wanted to…
American oceanographer who discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1991
People not believing me.
Radio astronomer; discoverer of pulsars
Recorded · University of Cambridge · 2020
My contemporaries were more upset about the Nobel than I was not to be recognised. One of them labelled it the 'No-Bell' prize! But it was fine by me.
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