Life in science

i was born in 1936 in Berlin, germany. i attended the collège Français Berlin, a historical school where all the classes are taught in French. although living in east Berlin, i studied medicine at the Free university of Berlin, located in west Berlin, from which i graduated in 1961. in 1959, i started working on my doctoral thesis, which i defended in 1962, at the institute of hygiene of the university of Berlin. two days after the Berlin wall was built, in august 1961, i crossed to west Berlin using a borrowed passport. i completed my internship at the rudolf virchow hospital in Berlin and spent a year at the pasteur institute in paris. i then returned to the institute of hygiene and left again to the pasteur institute, where i attended the grand course of microbiology. to pursue better career opportunities, i emigrated to canada in 1967 and joined the Department of microbiology Life in Science