Three Canadians among contenders for Nobel Prize for Medicine

As scientific origins go, Douglas Coleman's were humble ones.

The biochemist, who is in contention for the Nobel Prize for Medicine being announced Monday morning, was born in Stratford, Ont., in 1931, just as the Depression began to decimate jobs. He remembers eating dry cereal six days a week and looking forward to milk on Sundays. He was an indifferent scholar by his own account, who in Grade 10, knowing his family needed the money, considered dropping out for good to sign up for work on the railroad. That is, he says, until “I realized school was a lot easier.”  Read More

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