Souvenirs

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He is the oldest fully-employed immuno-logist in the world, according to the International Union of Immunological Societies. Zoltan Ovary's life is a joyous example of perseverance. Past 90, he still goes to work seven days a week at the New York University Medical School. He was a little boy when he learned to love both science and the arts from the habitués of a leading literary and artistic salon that his mother held seven days a week in her drawing room in Transylvania.
The great upheavals in Europe forced him into a series of migrations. Despite this, he managed to foster and find sustenance in the kind of environment he had experienced in his mother's salon. Along the way, he made discoveries that became essential to countless experiments in medical research worldwide.
Souvenirs begins in the first decade of this century and ends in the century's last. The book's rich itinerary includes such places as Paris, Rome, Venice, Budapest, London, Sâo Paulo, Bessarabia, Beijing,... Tovább

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He is the oldest fully-employed immuno-logist in the world, according to the International Union of Immunological Societies. Zoltan Ovary's life is a joyous example of perseverance. Past 90, he still goes to work seven days a week at the New York University Medical School. He was a little boy when he learned to love both science and the arts from the habitués of a leading literary and artistic salon that his mother held seven days a week in her drawing room in Transylvania.
The great upheavals in Europe forced him into a series of migrations. Despite this, he managed to foster and find sustenance in the kind of environment he had experienced in his mother's salon. Along the way, he made discoveries that became essential to countless experiments in medical research worldwide.
Souvenirs begins in the first decade of this century and ends in the century's last. The book's rich itinerary includes such places as Paris, Rome, Venice, Budapest, London, Sâo Paulo, Bessarabia, Beijing, and New York.
Neither autobiography nor full-fledged history, Souvenirs is a memoir in the original French sense, i.e. a collection of anecdotes regarding a subject or theme, as personally recollected by the author. In Souvenirs, Dr. Ovary evokes a lifelong passion for science and the arts, and recalls the many extraordinary people who have shared this passion.
Souvenirs brims with stories about famous artists, diplomats, and Nobel-Prize winning scientists, as well as less-known but equally interesting personalities. A random sampling includes Bela Bartok, who frequented Dr. Ovary's childhood home, Salvador Dali, Alice Tully, Birgit Nilsson, and Dr. Ovary's godmother, the Baroness Karola Bornemissza, the first woman in the world to fly in a plane.
For the reader, perhaps the most remarkable personality would be the author himself. He has a buoyant voice and usually finds the amusing side of whatever subject he writes about. He employs a breezy style in relating such matters as a palace of hidden treasures, rituals of a vanished world, or otherwise abstruse points of medical science.
Dr. Ovary looks lovingly to the past yet continues to find inspiration in the world of chance and possibility. Breathing through each decade of the century, Souvenirs is one man's farewell to this century and invitation to the next. Vissza