Martin Grant earns Morty Yalovsky Lifetime Achievement Award
Early in his career in physics,聽聽thought he had it all figured out.
鈥淲hen I started, I said to myself 鈥榳ell, this is good. Nobody鈥檚 going to tell me what to do,鈥 said Grant, Emeritus James 成人VR视频 Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Science. 鈥淚鈥檝e got the world鈥檚 greatest postdoc 鈥 me 鈥 and I鈥檒l be able to do all the projects that I want to do pretty much by myself.鈥
鈥淏ut I quickly realized that if I followed that route, I would be doing a disservice to the students.鈥
Grant knew that, while he could have done the work himself, students would benefit greatly if they were involved in the hands-on research.
鈥淭he downside to that approach is that it鈥檚 not all about you anymore,鈥 he said. 鈥淭he upside is you give students an opportunity to really learn.
鈥淭he people I look up to are the people who embrace this idea of the role model, and who are willing to get satisfaction out of other people鈥檚 successes and other people鈥檚 accomplishments. I hope I鈥檝e lived up to that.鈥