Karolinska Institute

Building in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Source	Author	Role	In one line
How I Learned to Understand the World	Hans Rosling	turning point	In 1996 Rosling uses his twenty minutes to teach eight professors his bubble graph rather than argue his qualifications.

How I Learned to Understand the World — Hans Rosling

Source: How I Learned to Understand the World · Readwise highlight

I hurried through the slushy snow, clutching a bundle of documents, on my way to the Karolinska Institute, where I was to be interviewed for the position of Chair in International Health.

• Role: turning point
• In the book: In 1996 Rosling uses his twenty minutes to teach eight professors his bubble graph rather than argue his qualifications. He does not get the chair but is offered a six-year senior lectureship and later a professorship.
• Why it matters: Career turning point: the bubble graph, not research, makes him a professor.