Then, the phone really started ringing. It was a reporter from The A.P. who said she was in front of our apartment and wanted to get a picture of me. I said, “I’m in my pajamas.” She said, “That’s exactly the photo I want.” I said, “But you’re not going to get it.”
—from Claudia Dreifus’s interview of Marty Chalfie, in the New York Times.
Next week Professor Chalfie will be the prize in the Win-a-Date-with-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. One lucky ticket-holder will claim this unusual swag.
(Thanks to investigator Thomas Michel for bringing this to our attention. Dr. Michel, too, will play a role in the ceremony, albeit a rather different role.)