Angela Beckett is a born and raised Vancouverite currently pursuing her Nobel Prize. For a few months, it was a toss up for her whether to work towards winning a Nobel Prize or winning the World Poker Tour (both have their pros). She started to play poker professionally, or at least in shady casinos, but alas failed to make in into the Tour. She then
decided to make her trek towards the Nobel Prize. Firstly, she had to choose a category...obviously not economics since she had wanted to play poker for a living. Since a Beckett has already won in the literature category, she felt the odds would be skewed against her. With three categories left, she flipped a coin and chose medical research (luckily there wasn\'t a math category). And the count down begins.....