A conversation with award-winning cell biologist Anthony Hyman about the desire to cure diseases, Dresden as a research city – and the murder of his wife.
They were prepared for an English-language, perhaps somewhat brittle interview about the complexity of body cells, but over dinner in the canteen of the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Anthony Hyman talks in fluent German not only about his award-winning research, with which he has gained new insights about the inside of cells, but also about his own inside. While walking his two whippets, the British native raves about life in Saxony, the advantages of the German research landscape and the happiness that sometimes follows horror. Hyman’s wife was murdered in 2019.