“Over there is Annie Shapiro. She invented a new kind of DNA splicing that’s now called the Shapiro method.” “Seriously?” I said. “The Annie Shapiro? She invented three entire enzymes from scratch to splice DNA using—” “Yes, yes. Very smart lady.” “She did it for her PhD thesis. Her thesis. Do you know how many people are on track for a Nobel Prize from research they did in grad school?
