Thomas Söderqvist
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300094411
- eISBN:
- 9780300128710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300094411.003.0017
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
This chapter focuses on Niels Jerne's departure from Pasadena. Students, visiting researchers, and staff wrote their goodbyes. “Have a miserable trip; I hate you (but love Adda),” wrote George ...
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This chapter focuses on Niels Jerne's departure from Pasadena. Students, visiting researchers, and staff wrote their goodbyes. “Have a miserable trip; I hate you (but love Adda),” wrote George Streisinger. The next day, the Jernes flew to New York to sail back to Europe. In the week it took to cross the Atlantic, Jerne buried himself in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript, a tract on inwardness that mentally prepared him for his return to Denmark. A week with the “subjective problem” was also, he thought, “a valuable antidote” to the endless suburban streets of Pasadena, to Delbruck and his desert excursions, and, not least, to “the objectivism which is spreading so deplorably among the educated [classes],”as he expressed it in a letter to Stent.Less
This chapter focuses on Niels Jerne's departure from Pasadena. Students, visiting researchers, and staff wrote their goodbyes. “Have a miserable trip; I hate you (but love Adda),” wrote George Streisinger. The next day, the Jernes flew to New York to sail back to Europe. In the week it took to cross the Atlantic, Jerne buried himself in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript, a tract on inwardness that mentally prepared him for his return to Denmark. A week with the “subjective problem” was also, he thought, “a valuable antidote” to the endless suburban streets of Pasadena, to Delbruck and his desert excursions, and, not least, to “the objectivism which is spreading so deplorably among the educated [classes],”as he expressed it in a letter to Stent.
