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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #45758 Oliver Smithies
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Oliver  Smithies  won  the  Nobel  Prize  in    or  Medicine  in  2007.  On  June  27th,  he  spoke  to  students  about  what  he  learned  from  his  thesis  ,  which    developing  a  new  method  to  measure  the  osmotic  pressures  of  mixes  of  proteins:  "Here's  my  osmotic  pressure  .  And  I  was  rather  proud  of  this  method.  And  I    it  with  great  delight.  This  paper  has  a  record,  you  know:  nobody  ever  quoted  it.  And  nobody  ever  used  the  method  again.  And  I  didn't  use  the  method  again.  Sol  have  to  ask  you,  what  was  the  point  of  it  all?  Well,  the  answer  is  really  a  very  serious  answer.  The  answer  is  I  learned  to  do  good  science.  But  it  didnt  matter  what  I  did  when  I  was  learning  to  do  good  science.  So  it  doesnt  matter  what  you  do  when  you're  doing  a  thesis,  you  see.  But  it's  very  important  that  you  enjoy  it.  Because  if  you  don't  enjoy  it,  you  won't  do  a  good  job,  and  you  won't  learn  science.  So  all  of  this  comes  around  to  the  fact  that  if  you  don't  enjoy  what  you're  doing,  ask  your  advisors  to  let  you  do  something  else.  And  if  your  advisor  won't  do  that,  there's  another  :  change  your  advisor:

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