To facilitate distribution, the envelopes were hand delivered by one of the researchers or a hospital research collaborator to the nurse managers of the participating wards, who then accepted responsibility for distribution to all nurses in their respective areas.
Her colleague and research collaborator, Thomas Bak, a reader in human cognitive neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, agrees: "It is the most important change in our understanding of the brain in recent times.
His wife, Akemi Shimomura, also a chemist by training and his longtime research collaborator, said that the Japanese government had been stupid to not surrender immediately after the Hiroshima bomb.
The chemist Rachel Segalman, Ager's officemate and frequent research collaborator, joined us to show off a prototype version of the solar generator that's fresh off the 3-D printer.
With his long-term research collaborator Jean Drèze (Belgian-born, but also an Indian citizen), Sen has just published An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions.
Bernhard Dobberstein, a molecular cell biologist at the Center for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg, Germany, and Blobel's research collaborator in the mid-1970s, agrees.
