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...specialized in psychiatry for only 'about three years.' " Actually, he testified that he had specialized in psychiatry for about 20 years. The "three years" referred to his work in psychiatric clinics in the early '305, following his return from studies in London, Heidelberg and Zurich. I trust you will correct this mistake, which reflects upon Dr. Binger's long and distinguished career as a psychiatrist...
...Swiss universities, the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and the School of Economics and Public Administration in St. Gallen offer tuition grants which can be supplemented by stipends given by universities and Swiss societies...
...long and highly successful career as composer and conductor, the late Richard Strauss formed some sharply spiced opinions on music and musicians. Frequently he got a few on paper. Last week Western Europeans were chuckling over a selection of his articles, essays and open letters published by Zurich's Atlantis Verlag under the title Reflections and Reminiscences...
Working in a similar field was a 68-year-old Swiss physiologist, Dr. Walter Rudolph Hess, director of Zurich University's Physiological Institute. A specialist in the circulatory and nervous systems, Dr. Hess studied the reaction of animals to electric shocks. By applying electrodes to parts of a cat's brain he was able to make the animal do what it would normally do if it saw a dog, i.e., hiss, etc. By experiments, Dr. Hess was able to determine how parts of the brain control organs of the body...
When his mother died in 1910, his strongest tie to the old country was cut. His father wanted him to go to Zurich to study industrial chemistry, but the boy had grown up in a fertile country and was fascinated each spring by the return of the generative cycle. Frequently he asked himself: What is life? How does it begin? How does it function...