How do you know if someone is calling regarding a job or a Nobel Prize?
As Linda Buck’s phone number was unlisted, the Nobel committee instead called the director of Buck’s division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
The director received a call from Sweden at 2:00 am in Seattle asking for the number of Linda Buck. As Buck was on the faculty search committee, the director assumed that the call was from someone that was interested in the vacant faculty position, but was unaware of the time difference.
The director suggested that if the caller was interested in getting the job, an early morning phone call wasn’t the best way to do it. When the director heard the real reason for the call, he replied: “That will get you a job here!”
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Linda Brown Buck is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard Axel, for their work on olfactory receptors. She is currently on the faculty of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
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