Rabu, 28 September 2011

Mario Capechi

Imagine a child is underweight, filthy, and the usual wild you see wandering the streets of the city. He was begging, fighting, stealing as well.You believe that a child like that could someday be a famous scientist, a winner of numerous international awards. Perhaps most of all we would not believe. However, that's a fairy tale life that thanks to Mario Capecchi engineering research genetikanyaia won the prestigious Nobel Prize in medicine.Born of affluent American derivatives, Mario stranded on the streets after her mother's anti-fascism was arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into concentration camps Dechau the outbreak of World War II. He has been confined in a hospital along with other street children. They each day just dijathi small piece of bread and a cup of coffee. Just before noon, they always fell unconscious on the beds narrow-crush coincide with each other. Mario escapes from death when her mother arrived to pick up. With half a state mental hospital, the mother brought her 9-year-old returned to America. Finally the mother entrusted her son to his uncle. She attended the elementary school in the Quaker School.At the high school level, he felt that the teachers treat students like the students. The student teacher dialogue without using the textbook. Stock of knowledge and values ​​of life from the Quaker school plus his uncle's personal influence as a scientist led him also to be a scientist. In the work, he was known as a creative, professional, and skilled.
There was interesting quote when he received the Kyoto Prize of the nature of education. He pondered her childhood, and he argued: "The only thing we need to provide for all our kids are insufficient opportunities to pursue interests and their dreams. The level of our understanding of human development is too shallow to predict who among those children who would be Bethoven, Modligiani, or the next Martin Luther King. "