Abstract
You surely have to be intelligent to be a good scientist. But at a recent reception, hosted by James R Wright, Canada's High Commissioner in London, to celebrate the 2010 Canada Gairdner Awards, Peter Ratcliffe disagreed: “confidence is important…you don't need to be intelligent”. Ratcliffe won his Gairdner for discovering the mechanism of hypoxic sensing in cells. There are many good reasons for not doing experiments, he said. It is confidence, not intelligence, that overcomes those reasons. Nick White was also a Gairdner winner, receiving his award for work on artemisinin.
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