All the scientists around the world said it wasn’t possible and I was getting so much criticism at the time. It was such a relief that I went into the laboratory next door and burst...

I surprised a local minister at the age of 10 when he asked me what I wanted to be and I told him that I wanted to be an eye and ear doctor,

It was really something that grabbed me that I wanted to do . . . medicine.

The most moving experience for me was in 1978 when our first patient heard speech for the first time,