Last Updated on January 7, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
One year before Isidro Ballard killed himself:
Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org left the group of Martin Billeter and Charles Weismann in Zurich and became a brain researcher.
Charles Weissmann is currently known to be the most famous Molecular Biologist of Switzerland:
Weissmann cloned Interferon, Weissmann collaborated with Nobel Prize winner Stanley B. Prusiner about Prions. And a student of Weissmann said to Peter they killed countless mice to extract Prions from their brains, what sounded horrible.
This famous Charles Weissmann challenged Peter 30 years ago, when he had oral exams with him at the University of Zurich. Peter expected Charles Weissmann to ask him questions about Interferon and Prions in these exams. But Weissmann wanted to know from Peter everything about viruses. And since Peter previously had plans to study viruses in the lab, he knew everything about viruses. And Weissmann gave him a summa cum laudae for the answers he gave.
And now in the year 2024. Peter is Director of the Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) and is interrogated by the Swiss Police if he works or not:
It is a question Peter sometimes has to laugh about. How times are changing. Today Peter is not challenged by Charles Weissmann anymore, but by neigbours in around Zurich, and is looking for a lawyer to solve this problem.
But does not the summa cum laudae from the most famous Molecular Biologist in Switzerland qualify Peter for a critical review about Meditation Research in Switzerland and around the word? Charles Weissmann was a top scientist at a top University in Zurich. And Peter is used to be critical about top scientists. He was it 30 years ago, and he is it still today.
And another critical remark by Peter here at the end of this post. Charles Weissmann is known to be the most famous molecular biologist of Switzerland. But is there another Molecular Biologist in Switzerland next to Charles Weissmann? Since many molecular biologists Peter knew have left Switzerland, since job opportunities for those in Switzerland where rare.