A day in the ‘normal’ life of a Nobel Prize winner

Baltimore, Maryland (CNN) — She was folding laundry when the call came at 5 a.m. After she hung up the phone, Dr. Carol Greider went upstairs to wake her children. She had to tell them, even if it meant getting them out of bed early.

“I said, ‘By the way, I just won the Nobel Prize. You can go back to sleep now,’ ” she recalled.

Until this past October, many would have described Greider as your typical working woman. A molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the mother of two children — Gwendolyn, 10, and Charles, 13 — she splits her time between job and family. But “typical” no longer applies. Read more here >>

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