The bedside-bench-bedside cycle: Robert Lefkowitz and GPCRs.

Biographies and autobiographies are important because they provide an account of history, social, cultural, and political developments, or discoveries and inventions, from a personal perspective. This is a review of the memoirs of Robert Lefkowitz (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm, with Randy Hall), who, together with Brian Kobilka, won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies on G protein-coupled receptors.