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7 - Migration in Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

By
Venki Ramakrishnan
Edited by
Johannes Knolle  and
James Poskett
With contributions by
David Olusoga ,
Chandran Kukathas ,
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll ,
Filippo Grandi ,
Eva Harris ,
Kavita Puri ,
Venki Ramakrishnan  and
Iain Couzin
Johannes Knolle
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
James Poskett
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
Chandran Kukathas
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Filippo Grandi
Affiliation:
United Nations Refugee Agency
Eva Harris
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Kavita Puri
Affiliation:
BBC
Venki Ramakrishnan
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Iain Couzin
Affiliation:
Universität Konstanz, Germany
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Summary

Science is an international endeavour. Its development depends on exchanges of ideas and expertise, which are made possible by people moving from one part of the world to another. I myself am an immigrant at least twice over. I grew up in India and studied in the United States, spending almost three decades there before moving again to England almost 19 years ago to work at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. I was not the first immigrant to arrive there. In fact, the first three directors of the LMB were all immigrants. The first director, Max Perutz (1914–2002), was Austrian. The second, Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), and the third, Aaron Klug (1926–2018), were both South Africans. The current director, Jan Löwe, is also an immigrant, from Germany.

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Migration , pp. 148 - 165
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Al-Khalili, J. (2010). Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science. London: Allen Lane.Google Scholar
Dasgupta, S. (1999). Jagadis Chandra Bose and the Indian Response to Western Science. Delhi: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Finch, J. (2013). A Nobel Fellow on Every Floor: A History of the Medical Research Laboratory of Molecular Biology. London: Icon Books.Google Scholar
Kanigel, R. (1991). The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. London: Abacus.Google Scholar
Miller, A. (2005). Empire of Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes. London: Little Brown.Google Scholar
Ramakrishnan, V. (2018). Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome. London: Oneworld Publications.Google Scholar
Ronan, C. (1983). The Cambridge Illustrated History of the World’s Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Sime, R. (1996). Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Singh, S. (1999). The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. London: Fourth Estate.Google Scholar

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