AusDoc special report: Professor Bruce Hall, excommunication and the Nobel prize for medicine
The prize, he says, was purporting to recognise discoveries that were first made in his own laboratory three decades ago.
When the laureates of the Nobel prize for medicine were announced last week, Professor Bruce Hall was not surprised.
Still, the news hit hard.
Sitting in his car at his Blue Mountains weekender, the immunologist felt a mix of resignation and anger.
The prize, he says, was purporting to recognise discoveries that were first made in his own laboratory three decades ago — work he believes laid the foundation for the very research now being celebrated.
