@Molden who were your supervisors .....
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 21/02/15 23:20, Sturla Molden wrote:
>
> > "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof, which this margin is too
> > narrow to contain." ;-)
>
> A more bizarre story...
>
> Last time I said something like that was in 2004, when a postdoc, a
> fellow PhD student and I had found some strange hexagonal patterns in
> the activity of a type of neurons. It was beautiful, very regular and
> unlike anything we had seen before. When we showed it to our supervisors
> they thought it was an artifact in my computation, which they after a
> while had to accept it was not. We submitted a paper to Nature, but
> instead of refusing it -- which they had done to anything we had sent to
> them before -- they strangely accepted it. The reviewer even said the
> discovery was as important as the discovery of pinwheels in visual
> cortex. That made us all laugh, because we knew David Hubel and Torsten
> Wiesel had won the Nobel prize for that -- so obviously the reviewer was
> exaggerating. But it is always nice to get good reviews. I stopped
> laughing about that comment on October the 6th last year when I heard
> our supervisors had gotten a phone call from Stockholm.
>
> Sturla
>
>
>
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