The nicest toast came from Jack Szostak, the Harvard professor who had turned her on to the wonders of RNA back when she was a graduate student. Szostak, who had won a Nobel in medicine in 2009 (jointly with two women), raised a glass of champagne while sitting in the backyard of his stately brick Boston townhouse. “The only thing better than winning a Nobel Prize,” he said, “is having one of your students win one.”
