The perils of poor housing

"...Spemann's organizer was discovered by Hans Spemann's grad student Hilde Mangold. Spemann got the Nobel Prize. Hilde lived in crappy grad student housing and killed herself^*. You can't win a Nobel posthumously. Moral of the story, if you want to win the Nobel, don't live in crappy housing."

- one of the Path 750 lecturers

*Gilbert's Developmental Biology says Mangold died when the gas stove in her apartment exploded. I guess that's why most crappy apartments now have electric stoves...to preserve the lives of potential Nobel laureates. =P