Pursue the Passion visited the University Research Park in Madison, Wisconsin a few weeks back, and talked with some passionate entrepreneurs in the biotech industry. Despite pouring rain, and showing up at 4:30pm on a Friday, we had a decent turnout. Below is the video from our day.

Nicolaas Bloembergen is one very smart man. In his little 86 year old, 5’ 5” frame, he articulately explained, in a Dutch accent, how he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981 for his work with non-linear optics and lasers. He talked about other technologies such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and nuclear spin relaxation mechanisms with such simplicity and ease that it immediately made me wish I had better prepared for the interview. But how could I? This guy is a natural-born genius!

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