Today the Nobel Committee announced the prize in Physiology and Medicine - this year's winners uncovered the role of apoptosis (programmed cell death) during development by studying the development of a nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans or C. elegans as we all call it. I mention this because one of the three laureates, Sydney Brenner, should have won the prize back in the sixties when he was the first person to identify and characterize the stop codons. In the 70's he got tired of bacteriophage and started the field of C. elegans genetics. Talk about your lifetime achievement.