Britain’s most successful genetic engineer woke with a groggy head yesterday after a rather good dinner at his Cambridge college. The chances are that he’ll be feeling a little delicate this morning too, after spending nearly £3,000 on champagne to celebrate winning a Nobel prize. The honour for Sir Greg Winter, who shares this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, extends an extraordinary record for Trinity College, where he is the master. It now boasts 33 Nobel laureates — enough, were it a country, to rank fifth in the international league table. Sir Greg admitted that when he got the news yesterday morning he had been feeling “a bit rocky” after an event at Trinity.

Source: The Times October 03, 2018 11:07 UTC