/research/taxonomy/term/223/all en /research/article/future-ready-translation-trailblazer <p>As a boy in Jaffa, Israel, Nahum Sonenberg walked regularly with his father to the Old Protestant cemetery on a hill overlooking the harbour. His father showed him the gravestone of Thomas Hodgkin, the British pathologist who first described Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the 1800s. Sonenberg recalls them standing on the hilltop, looking over the Mediterranean: “I asked my father, what’s beyond the water? ‘That’s America,’ he said, ‘where everything is possible.’ I was only four and thought I should go there one day.”</p> Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:39:05 +0000 Mark Witten 717 at /research