Description
This memoir is a sequel to the authors A Journey from Wartime Europe to Self-Discovery (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003). It describes the authors years at Cambridge, from arrival as a nervous schoolboy to leaving as a physics tutor and medical researcher. After his Cambridge doctorate, the author returns to Paris, the city of his birth and early youth. He obtains an appointment at the Radium Institute (now Curie Institute), lives at the Cit Universitaire and experiences the life and culture of Paris and post-WWII French science. After marriage to a French music student, he accepts an invitation to return to England and take up a research appointment there. Some years later, pharmacological work on prostaglandins, potent substances with a variety of physiological actions, leads to a research collaboration with Japanese and American groups and eventually to an appointment in the area of New Jersey that is prominent in the authors first book. The work emphasizes the differences in the lifestyles of the three countries. It will appeal to readers of the authors first memoir as well as to students of the culture of science.
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