I know someone who knows someone who just won a Nobel Prize! Just two degrees of separation! I won't name the intermediary link. But she is an old college friend of mine who married into the Ambros family. She thus became the in-law of a biologist named Victor Ambros [with no "e"], a professor at UMass Medical School. And Professor Ambros just won the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on microRNA. Allow me to bask in reflected glory. And here is a link should you want to know more about his work. U.S. Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Discovery of mRNA (usnews.com) And a word to the ghost of Alfred Nobel. You're forgiven for that high-explosives thing.