“I had been told that this might someday come,” she told me, “but when I received the call I became very moved, very emotional.” It took her back, she said, to her early childhood and deciding, while walking past the Pasteur Institute in her native Paris, that she someday would be a scientist. But by the time of her press conference, her emotions were well hidden behind her Mona Lisa smile. Carrying a glass of white wine, she came into the lobby of her institute, posed next to a bust of its namesake, Max Planck, and then answered questions in a way that managed to be both lighthearted and
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