Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies
Date of this Version
1985
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Looking back some 55 years since beginning my graduate studies, I have come to appreciate my good fortune: (1) to have inaugurated and carried out, over a period of some 35 years, a three-pronged research program (birds, simians, and man) against the world's most important infectious disease-malaria -and during two-thirds of that time, carrying worrisome administrative responsibilities; (2) to have participated in national and international efforts towards alleviation and control of that disease; (3) to have had a remarkable group of professional and subprofessional people who shared all kinds of problems; (4) to have received full support of my scientific efforts from the Directors of the National Institutes of Health, and last, but not least; (5) to have a wife who accepted my sometimes extended peregrinations, here and abroad, necessitated by my commitment to the problem of malaria. A reporter might ask, "How did a native Nebraskan, brought up with winter's snow and hot dry summers choose a tropical disease career?"
Comments
1985. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, XIII: 5-11. Copyright © 1985 Coatney