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Enders received a M.A. in English from Harvard in 1922, but entered the field of medical microbiology in 1927. For over 15 years he worked in the lab of Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist at the Medical School, who had influenced him to switch fields...
...years before he found that a student at Heidelberg had long since done the subject with unimprovable thoroughness. "I mouth the strange syllables of ten forgotten languages, letting my spirits fail, my youth pass," he youthfully wrote. Then a roommate, Australian Bacteriologist Hugh Ward, introduced John Enders to Hans Zinsser, Harvard University's professor of bacteriology and immunology, and one of the great fertilizing minds of his era (Rats, Lice and History for the layman. Infection and Resistance for the profession). Enders was then 30. "A man of superlative energy," Enders wrote of Zinsser after their first meeting...
...Zinsser told Enders that if he would work up his chemistry and physics in the summer, he could have a laboratory assignment in the fall. Enders did not leap at the offer; he moves too thoughtfully and slowly for that. But he took it. In May 1928 he wrote to a friend: "This antipodal revolution of my studies has been of large value in helping me to obtain that Pisgah* sight of things and people that perhaps is the ultimate aim of my apparently inconsistent, faltering and obscure action." In 1930, at the age of 33, Enders got a Ph.D...
...institute has published a splendid catalogue, well researched and written by Suzanne Foley, Caroline Zinsser, and Francis Brennan, and available for only a dollar. Every work in the exhibit is reproduced, with appropriate commentary--the whole introduced by an essay on the history and peculiar problems of portraiture...
John Franklin Enders, 63, was on his way to earning a Harvard Ph.D. in English when he met the late great Microbiologist Hans Zinsser. Inspired by Zinsser, Enders switched to bacteriology. But inspiration, he insists, has little place in the practical results of research. "As a rule, the scientist takes off from the manifold observations of his predecessors . . . The one who places the last stone and steps across to the terra firma of accomplished discovery gets all the credit." Thus Dr. Jonas Salk got most of the credit for developing polio vaccine. But it was Enders' patient work that first...