Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
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1,523 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Jaime Hoerricks, PhD’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She just walks away from the prestige of being a university professor.
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She takes a position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island.
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And it was there, working in her fifties, that she made a revolutionary discovery about jumping genes.
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But the scientific community didn't exactly throw her a parade, did they?
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Like how do you keep going when your entire field is basically ghosting you?
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They just didn't get it.
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Wow.
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Crossed a desert alone.
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So the desert years pass, decades, and finally the rest of the scientific world catches up to her genius, and at age eighty one she is awarded the Nobel Prize.
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Oh, it's my favorite part.
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Because she refused to get a telephone.
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She hated being interrupted, obviously.
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The Nobel committee couldn't even reach her.
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Right.
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She actually hears about it on the radio.
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And when colleagues finally track her down, she is just out on a morning stroll picking walnuts.
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Yeah.
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They hold a press conference and someone asks her what she plans to do with the prize money.
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