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Susumu Tonegawa

Japanese Scientist

Born: Sep 6, 1939

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The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is. Susumu Tonegawa

Mysterious Most Subject Brain

I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan. Susumu Tonegawa

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Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process. Susumu Tonegawa

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Immunologists agreed that an individual vertebrate synthesizes many millions of structurally different forms of antibody molecules even before it encounters an antigen. Susumu Tonegawa

Before Individual Encounters Different Forms Molecules Many Agreed Even Millions

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting. Susumu Tonegawa

Matter Chemistry Research Find Neuroscience Just Whether Interesting

In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available. Susumu Tonegawa

Technology Seventies Purifying Becoming Just Available Specific Early

At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego. Susumu Tonegawa

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I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us. Susumu Tonegawa

Myself Inside See Scientist Going Interested Us Who

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research. Susumu Tonegawa

Complicated Research Because Brain Hugely Requires

Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life. Susumu Tonegawa

Humans are very imaginative animals. Susumu Tonegawa

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Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them. Susumu Tonegawa

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