Book contents
- Migration
- The Darwin College Lectures
- Migration
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Black and British Migration
- 2 Immigration and Freedom
- 3 Art and Migration
- 4 Refugees and Migration
- 5 Migration of Disease
- 6 The Partition of India and Migration
- 7 Migration in Science
- 8 Animal Migration
- Index
- References
7 - Migration in Science
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Book contents
- Migration
- The Darwin College Lectures
- Migration
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Black and British Migration
- 2 Immigration and Freedom
- 3 Art and Migration
- 4 Refugees and Migration
- 5 Migration of Disease
- 6 The Partition of India and Migration
- 7 Migration in Science
- 8 Animal Migration
- Index
- References
Summary
Science is an international endeavour. Its development depends on exchanges of ideas and expertise, which are made possible by people moving from one part of the world to another. I myself am an immigrant at least twice over. I grew up in India and studied in the United States, spending almost three decades there before moving again to England almost 19 years ago to work at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. I was not the first immigrant to arrive there. In fact, the first three directors of the LMB were all immigrants. The first director, Max Perutz (1914–2002), was Austrian. The second, Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), and the third, Aaron Klug (1926–2018), were both South Africans. The current director, Jan Löwe, is also an immigrant, from Germany.
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Finch, J. (2013). A Nobel Fellow on Every Floor: A History of the Medical Research Laboratory of Molecular Biology. London: Icon Books.Google Scholar
Kanigel, R. (1991). The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. London: Abacus.Google Scholar
Miller, A. (2005). Empire of Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes. London: Little Brown.Google Scholar
Ramakrishnan, V. (2018). Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome. London: Oneworld Publications.Google Scholar
Ronan, C. (1983). The Cambridge Illustrated History of the World’s Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Sime, R. (1996). Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Singh, S. (1999). The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. London: Fourth Estate.Google Scholar
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