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Аннотация: This autobiography, requested by the Editorial Committee of the Annual Review of Biochemistry, has, I hope, mobilized my wit sufficiently to make the accidental reader dwell for more than a few moments and to raise curiosity about my intellectual pursuits in Copenhagen, where I grew up.Copenhagen at that time was often referred to as "The Athens of the North."Although I was an erratic pupil in school and occasionally felt miserable, I have many interesting and rewarding memories from the old fashioned school I attended, which, according to modem standards, es pecially for athletic activities, must be considered very modest.Its name was "0stre Borgerdyd Skole," which literally meant "the school for civic merits in the Eastern (0stre) borough of Copenhagen ."I suppose that "merits" were meant to be applied to a larger part of the world than that quiet, attractive part of the Danish capital in which the school was located (the three Kalckar sons, of which I was the middle one, lived in easy walking distance from the school).The Athenian flavor of "Borgerdyd Skolen" could not help making itself felt.The retired "Rector" (headmaster), J. L. Heiberg, was a world-renowned scholar in Greek, having translated Archimedes from Latin to Greek with great precision before the original Greek inscriptions were discovered.Our physics teacher, H. C. Christiansen, from the heather-covered, austere region of Western Jutland, was a formidable and passionately devoted teacher in mathematical physics.He had written a very concentrated, and in many ways very fine, textbook in physics, in which calculus played a prominent role.We were a little scared of him, because his temper would flare up if we tried to cut comers in our pre parations and tried instead to memorize the text and formu las from his book.Christiansen insisted in no uncertain terms that physics and calculus, vector analysis, etc can only be grasped by using pencil and paper over and over again in order to find the right polarity in the fine network of a creative scientific argument.I dare say that we got the 0rsted-Ampere rules right.I have allocated so much space to this alert teacher because I happened later to choose biological research and teaching as my occupation.Scientific arguments in pursuit of "truth ," or I prefer the term "high fidelity," require a special kind of alertness.Although our education in biology in school was largely systematic and somewhat static, it was brightened greatly by some extraordinary demonstra tions in human physiology by a world-famous "Jutlandian" zoo-physiologist, August Krogh , professor at the University of Copenhagen and Nobel Laureate of 1923 for his description of capillary blood flow and its regulation.Krogh was, to my knowledge, the only physiologist in the 1920s who took an active interest in introducing the principles of human physiology to Danish
Год издания: 1991
Авторы: Herman Μ. Kalckar
Издательство: Annual Reviews
Источник: Annual Review of Biochemistry
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Том: 60
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