Quote of the day
The [Nobel ]prize is such an extraordinary honor. It might seem unfair, however, to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
Samuel Shem

Born: 1944 (age 82)
Bio: Samuel Shem is the pen-name of the American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman. His main works are The House of God and Mount Misery, both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States.
Known for:
- The House of God (1978)
- Mount Misery (1997)
- The spirit of the place (2008)
- We have to talk (1998)






