4 Quotes & Sayings By Martin Chalfie

Martin Chalfie is a professor of molecular and cell biology and of genetics and biochemistry at the New York University School of Medicine, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, the founder and chairman of the RIKEN BRC Institute in Japan, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in genetics from Cornell University and did his postdoctoral work at Harvard University Read more

His research focuses on understanding the molecular basis of the formation and function of organelles, such as mitochondria and nuclei, which are found in all cells. He was recently awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on single-molecule electron microscopy and its use to explore biological systems at the single-molecule level.

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None of the standard high school science courses made much of an impression on me, but I did enjoy the Advanced Placement Chemistry course I took in my senior year. This course had only eleven students and was taught by a rarity for our school, an exchange teacher from England, Mr. Leslie Sturges. Martin Chalfie
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Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging. Martin Chalfie
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I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist. Martin Chalfie