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For many of us, academic medicine is one of the highest callings that one can pursue in life. To chair, develop, and direct a major institute at a great university shares that unique privilege. Among academic leaders in developmental physiology and the reproductive sciences, few have surpassed Geoffrey S. Dawes, one of the outstanding leaders in the field. Many terms could be used to describe Dawes: celebrated administrator, doyen of physician-scientists, illustrious, innovative, and creative investigator, distinguished world authority in the reproductive sciences, author of a foremost volume on developmental physiology, outstanding role model, and friend.
The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.
(Bernal 1954, pp. 57)
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Longo, L.D. (2018). Dawes as a Mentor: Reminisces of Former Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Associates. In: The Rise of Fetal and Neonatal Physiology . Perspectives in Physiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7483-2_26
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