Several times the story of my life might have ended

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Several times the story of my life might have ended

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On many... on several occasions the story of my life might have ended. But it did not, I was not on the bridge, I was not determined... this was not this time to be on the bridge of San Luis Rey... as you remember, that was the bridge that collapsed, and by chance there were some other people... so by chance I was not on that bridge.

Born in 1936, Jan Klein is a Czech-American immunologist who co-founded the modern science of immunogenetics – key to understanding illness and disease. He is the author or co-author of over 560 scientific publications and of seven books including 'Where Do We Come From?' which examines the molecular evolution of humans. He graduated from the Charles University at Prague in 1955, and received his MS in Botany from the same school in 1958. From 1977 to his retirement in 2004, he was the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology at Tübingen, Germany.

Title: Several times the story of my life might have ended

Listeners: Colm O'hUigin

Colm O'hUigin is a senior staff scientist at the US National Cancer Institute. He received his BA, MSc and PhD at the Genetics Department of Trinity College, Dublin where he later returned as a lecturer. He has held appointments at the Center for Population and Demographic Genetics, UT Houston, and at the University of Cambridge. As an EMBO fellow, he moved in 1990 to the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, Germany to work with Jan Klein and lead a research group studying the evolutionary origins of immune molecules, of teeth, trypanosomes and of species.

Tags: San Luis Rey

Duration: 41 seconds

Date story recorded: August 2005

Date story went live: 24 January 2008