"... On my father’s side, I come from a family of artists and architects. My grandfather was a Bauhaus architect in Germany and my grandmother was a painter. When my father as a child was tinkering around in the basement with chemistry sets, his mother said to him, “You’ll never make a living in science. Why don’t you go into the family business, the arts?” Well, he defied that advice. He was actually a PhD student with Heisenberg in Göttingen, and then a post-doc with Enrico Fermi in Chicago. After that he went to Caltech where he switched to biology and became one of the founders of the field of molecular biology. He founded the department of molecular biology at the . My mother was from a town on the Swiss-German border called , and she actually got her PhD in biology at age 22."
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Interview of Katherine Freese by David Zierler on April 23, 2021, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA
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Katherine Freese
(born 8 February 1957) is a German-born, American . She was awarded in 2019 the of the and was elected in 2020 a member of the .
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