Thomas D. Brock

The guy who came up with PCR got the Nobel.

But when Brock died, the New York Times obituary said Thomas Brock, who shared Nobel Prize, they had to correct his own obituary.

because it's such a well-known story that Brock and Hudson Fries discovered the thing.

But it wasn't really too much of an emphasis for later parts of his career.

In a lot of cases, annual sampling is a lot of what happens.

and might just say, you know what, you should try to do something else because there's no way to predict what you're going to be able to do in your future as a scientist.

And so then I wonder, you know, is that the next Tom Brock? Is that the next Patterson? Is that the next, you know, Beth Shapiro, Jennifer Doudna, right? Like any of these famous scientific names who...

either worked directly in parks or were inspired by just being in the parks.