Do you have to be smart to be a molecular biologist in Switzerland? – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on January 19, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org

Rolf Zinkernagel, professor of experimental immunology at the University of Zurich, Nobel price winner in 1996 in Physiology or Medicine who was also a molecular biologists says in the following video:

The personality of a student matters, and not his brain, to be chosen by him. Does this mean that a student does not have to be smart to be chosen Rolf Zinkernagel? This would fit very well to what Michael Hengartner, Swiss-Canadian biochemist and molecular biologist once said in one of his lectures at the university of Zurich:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hengartner

„The molecular biologists are not the smartest“

And did Michael Hengartner not also quit his job in the lab as a molecular biologists? Since Hengartner is since 2020 the president of the ETH Board, and was previously the president of the University of Zurich.

Maybe it is better to ask: is it smart to study molecular biology in Switzerland?

Since who chooses an education where you hardly find a job in Switzerland? And did not many molecular biologists which where educated in Switzerland had to leave this wonderful country? And another question. Are the jobs offered abroad for Swiss molecular biologists attractive for those?

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