The $8 an hour shuttle driver behind a Nobel Prize

Here is the shuttle driver's (Prasher) original publication: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1347277" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1347277</a> (which is the first GFP publication)<p>Here's a Science article 2 years later (with Prasher and one of the actual Nobel Prize winners - Chalfie): <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8303295" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8303295</a><p>And another in that same year with Prasher and a different prize winner (Tsien): <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7809066" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7809066</a><p>...crazy... why didn't Prasher get it too?

<i>"It was more important to me to hand over the tool to other scientists with the funding than to have individual glory," Prasher told London's Daily Mail.</i><p>Wow. Honest to goodness nobility. Don't see that every day.<p>Perhaps he's driving a bus not because he's not worthy of us, but because we're not worthy of him.

this is a crushingly sad story.

Seems as if something is missing... why couldn't he find a "scientific position" after 2006?

<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=335127" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=335127</a>

if it's any consolation, Prasher can take a page out of Garrett Lisi's playbook and get grants from new institutions who would be willing to fund someone like him now that his name is out.