Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.
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In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.
I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.
Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.
If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.
Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.