Dr. Mary-Claire King

And of course, I didn't know that either.

But he helped me work out that what more you need to know is how many times Ernie's already been up to bat.

So when you add three to it, what's it going to do?

And I was so taken with that logical way of thinking, and of course this was one incident out of hundreds and hundreds, and it went on from the time I was six until I was an adult, that I just never lost the flavor for it.

It's what I find most intriguing about it.

about science in general.

And I hope Ernie Banks is listening from heaven.

Ernie, it's you.

The idea that you can take a very complex phenomenon, and if you think about it a while, you can state it in terms that you can then solve.

And it's formulating that notion, stating a hypothesis, is to me what's absolutely critical about all these different types of work.

It's the puzzle.

And of course, genetics is the absolute soul of puzzle solving.

I apologize to all biochemists, but genetics is absolutely the basis of formulating hypotheses and then being able to test them both experimentally and quantitatively.

So it has both of those sources of knowledge as appeals.

Oh, yeah.

Well, this was the 60s in Berkeley.

And you can only imagine.

There were a number of...

Incredible forces converging.

Personally, I couldn't get any experiments to work.