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Eulogy for a brilliant mentor and teacher - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Eulogy for a brilliant mentor and teacher - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Eulogy for a brilliant mentor and teacher

Here is a eulogy for a pioneering scientist that says more about the lifelong effects of a dynamic teacher on his students than any “value-added” formula ever could.

The eulogy was delivered by Jeffrey Ravetch, head of the Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology at Rockefeller University in New York, at a memorial service last week for his former teacher and mentor, Norton Zinder, a ground-breaking geneticist and microbiologist. Zinder, who was my brother-in-law’s father, died this month at age 83.

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