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Secretly evaluated by the Communist party
Jan Klein
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| 21. Strong dislike of Communism | 63 | 05:34 | |
| 22. The influence of Lysenko on Czech biology | 77 | 06:28 | |
| 23. Saved from a teaching post on the Czechoslovakian border | 53 | 03:11 | |
| 24. Competing for a place to study for a PhD | 65 | 05:02 | |
| 25. Secretly evaluated by the Communist party | 63 | 00:41 | |
| 26. Reading the communist dossier on myself | 87 | 03:20 | |
| 27. Wanting to have my own project at the Academy | 67 | 05:44 | |
| 28. Abandoning botany | 81 | 02:14 | |
| 29. Blood group antigens | 83 | 05:11 | |
| 30. Immunological tolerance and hybridising somatic cells | 100 | 05:40 |
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While I was a teacher I was evaluated, not only as a teacher but also as a person and politically, that means how I was engaged politically. All these evaluations were secret, they were written by the party... Communist party, local Communist party members... but they were dossiers that stayed with you, that whenever you moved somewhere else they were sent with you, without your knowing what's in them.
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: Secretly evaluated by the Communist party
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: Communist party
Duration: 41 seconds
Date story recorded: August 2005
Date story went live: 24 January 2008
