MILWAUKEE (AP) â?? He refuses to own a TV, doesn’t read newspapers, hates stories about himself and talksthisfast on the rare occasions he does speak to reporters. Jamie Thomson, Wisconsin’s stem cell pioneer, does not suffer fools lightly, so you’d better get to the point and avoid personal questions.
“I’m a very private person,” he warns.Or at least he would like to be. This may be wishful thinking by a man seen as a possible Nobel Prize contender, who at age 39 made a discovery that landed him on the cover of Time magazine and prompted President Bush’s first national television address.