A Scientific Odyssey: Uncovering the Secrets of Thymus Function (Cell)

I grew up partly in China, partly in Switzerland, and partly in Australia. We lived in China because my father was manager of the Franco Chinese Bank. We moved to Switzerland because my eldest sister, Jacqueline, contracted tuberculosis; and that country, in the 1930s, was supposed to be the best place to manage this illness. Finally, the threat of Japanese invasion during World War II led my father to take his family away to Australia, where we arrived barely 3 months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.