A treasured memory from eighteen years ago - on a canoe with my dad, sipping from coconuts, during a father-son trip to Mombasa, Kenya. Tonight is the ninth yahrzeit for my father, Professor Michael Slifkin, of blessed memory. He was a wonderfully patient and good-natured father, a brilliant scientist, and a man of outstanding integrity. In a career spanning biochemistry, physics, electronics, membrane biology, and nanoparticles (amongst other things), he published 197 papers, including 11 in the prestigious journal
Rationalist Remembrance
Rationalist Remembrance
Rationalist Remembrance
A treasured memory from eighteen years ago - on a canoe with my dad, sipping from coconuts, during a father-son trip to Mombasa, Kenya. Tonight is the ninth yahrzeit for my father, Professor Michael Slifkin, of blessed memory. He was a wonderfully patient and good-natured father, a brilliant scientist, and a man of outstanding integrity. In a career spanning biochemistry, physics, electronics, membrane biology, and nanoparticles (amongst other things), he published 197 papers, including 11 in the prestigious journal