{"id":578,"date":"2007-01-11T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/i-require-1000000-dollars\/"},"modified":"2007-01-11T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T11:46:00","slug":"i-require-1000000-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/01\/i-require-1000000-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"I require 1,000,000 dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most scientists are urged to spend much of their time for getting research funds. Here is a another anecdote about Otto Warburg reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Booksources\/0198581718\">Hans Krebs<\/a> \/ p 57:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOne day he [Warburg] asked the office of the Director-General [of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, later Max Plack Society] to allocate 10,000 marks for his research. He was told that that the organization had no spare money; he should therefore write an application, which the Director-General would support, to the Notgemeinschaft (an emergency fund made available by the government for the promotion of research). Warburg replied that he had no secretary; the Director-General should put a secretary at his disposal. This was agreed. Warburg handed the secretary a sheet of paper and told her to type &#8216;Top left: Dr.Otto Warburg; top right: the date; underneath this: I require 10,000 (zehntausend) mark.&#8217; This Warburg signed. The &#8216;application&#8217; was succesful.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most scientists are urged to spend much of their time for getting research funds. Here is a another anecdote about Otto Warburg reported by Hans Krebs \/ p 57: One day he [Warburg] asked the office of the Director-General [of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, later Max Plack Society] to allocate 10,000 marks for his research. He was told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/01\/i-require-1000000-dollars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I require 1,000,000 dollars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,2946],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-history-insights","tag-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}