This story is a continuation of my earlier stories "After The Train", "Sheldon and Bernadette - 10 years later" and "The Sheldon Cooper Memorial Lecture." Amy gives her Nobel Prize winners lecture. Everything belongs to Lorre and Prady.
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Stockholm: December 2046, Emeritus Professor Amy Fowler-Wolowitz of Caltech gave her Nobel Prize winners lecture.
"I am humbled to be here in Stockholm to give this lecture. Never in a million years did I ever think that I would ever win a Nobel Prize. Before I begin my lecture I have a lot people to thank. I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy and the Nobel foundation for bestowing this great honour on me."
Background image of a Nobel Prize medal.
"I wish to congratulate my friends and colleagues Professor Sunita Malik and Professor Irina Mikhailova, with whom I am sharing this Nobel Prize. These ladies are two of the very best brain scientists in the world today, they must have picked my name out of a very large hat when they needed a third winner after deciding to award the Prize to three this year. I have known Sunita and Irina for many years, I been guests at their institutions and I have had the pleasure of having them both as my guests at Caltech."
Background images of Professors Malik and Mikhailova.
"I wish to thank all my friends and colleagues at Caltech, my scientific home for over 30 years. I also wish to thank all of my students past and present for all their contributions to my scientific work. I also wish to thank Harvard, where I was a student all those years ago."
Background images of Caltech and Harvard.
"I wish to thank all of those pioneers in neuroscience who first started to study the brain all those years ago. Without their early work and the work of those that followed them I wouldn't have been able to do the work for which I have been awarded this great Prize. As the great Isaac Newton said - If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Background picture of Isaac Newton.
"I wish to thank my family. My wonderful husband Howard, astronaut and engineer. He is also father to our brilliant twin children, we are very proud that they both became scientists. My daughter Bernardette is Professor of Biology at Caltech, she is a leading scientist in structural biology. My son Sheldon is Professor of Physics at Caltech, he is an world renowned expert in dark matter. They could well both be up here in a few years giving their own Nobel lectures."
Background image of family picture.
"Finally I wish to acknowledge someone who isn't here today. 30 years ago Dr. Sheldon Cooper, one of the world's leading theoretical physicists, was killed in a train accident with 4 of our other closest friends, including Howard's wife. Sheldon was thought to be a future Nobel Prize winner, had he lived he would have given his Nobel Prize lecture many years before today. Sheldon was my boyfriend when he died, he was also a good friend of Howard. Howard and I got married a year after the train accident, it wasn't a coincidence that we named our son Sheldon. This Nobel is for you Dr. Cooper."
Background image of Dr. Sheldon Cooper