David Baker

Yeah, it was very exciting and

got the phone call.

And then I think what I remember the most that day was when I came into the lab and we had this huge party here and that was really, really special.

And then in Stockholm that I think we

I really felt that the work, that the prize was a celebration of the work of, you know, the many people, the many brilliant students and postdocs and others I've had over the years who contributed to all the things that, you know, ended up going into the Nobel prize winning work.

And then I actually talked about in my talk.

And so I wanted to, we asked people to, former colleagues to come.

And then I think we actually set a record.

There were 185 people who,

who came, you know, who former colleagues, former graduate students and postdocs, mostly former, almost all actually former trainees at one level or another at different times.

And that was really special.

I think we set a record.

And this really hit home to me when I gave my talk, my Nobel speech, and then

you know, when you're up there on stage, you can't really see who's on the audience.

And then when the lights came on, I saw that there was a quarter of the room, the whole, there was this whole big section, which were all former graduates and postdocs from, you know, many years back up until the current.

And that was really, really special.

And I think it made it clear to me, I guess I'd always known it, but I was really impressed upon the fact that, you know, for me, really, you know, the scientific advances are one thing, but really training and mentoring all these amazing people

or going on to do all these really amazing things is really, I think that's the most important thing I do.

And so anyway, and then in Stockholm, we had a number of really fantastic parties with all these 185 people, including family and extended family.

And it was really wonderful.