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Originally Posted by renormalised
All of them....they make great front men to these institutions, act as the guide and inspiration to move the research along, oversee the "big picture" organisation and planning, go to all the important meetings with politicians etc, and get all the credit when things go wonderfully great...but most of the groundwork is done by middle management. All the hard yards and nitty gritty is done by them. The big boys just look in every now and then to make sure things are running smoothly and how they want them to. Then get all the credit for the successes.
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Oh. I thought they got to where they were by hard work and used their experience to manage their respective institutes. Frank Fenner for instance. Rids the world of smallpox, and ran the John Curtin. Fenner, by the way, considered Florey as even more modest and unassuming than himself - which is saying something. Till the day he died last year, he was and still is an inspiration to many current and former students of immunology in Australia, myself included. Known to all as one of the most modest, humble, wise and insightful scientists the nation has ever produced. To say that this man was a credit - seeking, big boy, looking in on things every now and then is, well, I think I'll sign off on this thread now.