![]() ![]() I knew of Nobel Prizes associated with parasitic protozoa, but if such an honor were linked to a parasitic worm, why did our professors and textbooks not brag about it? The answer, it soon became clear, was that they had no wish to flaunt a laurel given for what appeared to be spurious science. He was a mathematician and I was a parasitologist, so he achieved a memorable, if unintentional, bit of one-upmanship when he remarked casually that his uncle had got the Nobel Prize for research on a parasitic worm. ![]() In the 1950s he and I were graduate students, members of a diverse group thrown together in the Old Governor's Mansion in Madison, Wisconsin, for purposes of intellectual cross-fertilization. THE WORM AND THE TUMOR: REFLECTIONS ON FIBIGER'S NOBEL PRIZE WILLIAM C. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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