Gordon Freeman:  

AHHS and Mr. Arseneau's science club in T1 gave me my start in science. I've been in Boston since AHHS. What a change that was in 1969! I have been blessed with the company of a brilliant and interesting woman. I married Arlene Sharpe in 1978, that Radcliffe student with the great legs. She is now a professor at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the Department of Immunology. She is an amazing wife and scientist who combines big vision, administrative efficiency, and political savy. All are also valuable in raising kids as well as at work. We have bounced scientific advances in human and mouse between our labs and both grown from it. I'm still happy to see her each day. I was lucky enough to have 2 kids in the time of Beanie babies, Harry Potter, and Little League. I was able to celebrate a Red Sox World Series win with my son in 2004! My 26 year old daughter, Suzy, is a forceful original who sees deeply into social relationships. She's now a graduate student at MIT studying international relations. Despite two parents obsessed with work and tortured by grant deadlines, our 30 year old son, Sam, is turning out well. A gentle soul, he has a quick and easy intelligence that eclipses his parents. He spent far too much time on computer shoot-em ups in high school, but somehow thrilled his parents by getting into Princeton. He tells me I'm a computer character who works at the Black Mesa and uses a crowbar to defend humanity against hostile aliens (search Gordon Freeman on Wikipedia). He's now a graduate student at Harvard in bioinformatics. My life is consumed by family, discovery, and as many books as I can read before dawn. Over many years, I have passed through enthusiasms for squash, ballroom dance, yoga, standup comedy, and opera. I'm looking for a new enthusiasm now. Bad knees ended competitive squash around age 40 and now I just try to stay loose and fit. I hope to be interesting but spend a lot of time talking about my kids. I'm a Professor at Harvard Medical School and have a lab at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. This allows me to think a great deal about solving puzzles. I hope to be mentally nimble enough to surf the advancing wave of science for some more years. I feel incredibly fortunate to be doing scientific research during the blossoming of molecular biology and cancer immunotherapy. The leaps in tech...Expand for more