Prizes: A Novel by Erich Segal

Author:Erich Segal [Segal, Erich]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780804153232
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

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SANDY

In the history of champagne, the most unusual bottles ever used were those reportedly made of genuine crystal and supplied to Czar Alexander II by his French purveyor, Louis Roederer. That is until the fall of 1975, when torrents of fine champagne were served in large laboratory flagons to the crowd of well-wishers gathered in David Baltimore’s lab at MIT to celebrate the announcement that he had just won the Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell.

Naturally, all the teams from the neighboring labs were invited to join the festivities.

As one would have expected, the moment the prize was announced on the radio, Greg Morgenstern immediately sprang into action. He phoned Sandy to meet him at Martignetti’s Wine Store to help schlep the bubbly—a magnum of which he paid for out of his own pocket.

He also outsped all the other famous MIT professors, including the many Nobelists, and was the first visitor to congratulate the thirty-seven-year-old wunderkind.

After the celebration, as they were walking back to their own domain, Sandy remarked to Morgenstern, “I bet we’ll be drinking to you someday soon.”

“No,” the older man replied. “Not a chance.”

“But Greg, you’re close as hell to synthesizing that protein. Take my word for it, you’ll be in the history books too.”

“Sandy,” his mentor responded, “I wish you’d stop referring to me as a one-man band. If I hadn’t been lucky enough to find the other young Turks—especially you—I’d still be miles away.”

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