I took great pride in our recruitment at Harvard, and it set a tone for the department. It raised everyone's spirits and I can honestly say that I was sad when I left. There were tears, there were recriminations. I'm thinking now, today, of going back there from time to time. I'm at the stage where I can't do much driving, but I'm thinking of hiring a driver to bring me up there for two days and a night. Because I still have lots of friends in the department. Arrogant as it sounds, there's no place like Harvard.

I taught at the medical school, I taught at the hospital, Mass General and Children's, and I taught an undergraduate course at the college. I would love, whether Ruth accompanies me on this quick excursion back and forth, I'd like to renew contact. We'll see if they'll have me. I was promoted to tenure twice at Harvard, I like to brag about that. Altogether I've been promoted to tenure six different times in different schools. They thought they could get rid of me by doing that, but they didn't.

These are just some of the students who worked in my lab. I mentioned some of the experiments. Some of the faculty members who I interacted with were very talented. I recruited Linda Buck; she was the person who worked with Richard Axel and won the Nobel Prize for identifying various diversity of taste receptors. And Rod MacKinnon, who I'd recruited from another department at Harvard, altogether.

Anyhow, the recruitment at Harvard was very enjoyable. We did it as a group, as a team, as a consultant. I think I mentioned, tell me if I'm repeating myself, but we recruited nine people and eight people were promoted to tenure. That's better than one in 26 years. It was no great pressure, everybody agreed that these people were worthy.