Viral replication and cancer : proceedings of the 2nd Durán-Reynals Symposium, June 21-23, 1973, Barcelona / editors : Joseph L. Melnick, Severo Ochoa, Juan Oró.

  • Duran-Reynals International Symposium 1973 : Barcelona, Spain)
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    FRANCISCO DURÁN-REYNALS In Memoriam Nils Oker-Blom Department of Virology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland ¿Qué es la vida? un frenesí; ¿ Qué es la vida? una ilusión, una sombra, una ficción, y el mayor bien es pequeño; que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son. Calderón de la Barca For one who had the privilege of working as a student and collabora¬ tor in his laboratory, remembering Francisco Durán-Reynals and rereading his papers and correspondence is both a great experience and a privilege. Francisco Durán-Reynals must have had some of the scientific vision that is comparable with the talent expressed in the poetry of his great compatriot Calderón de la Barca. Francisco Durán-Reynals was born in Barcelona on the 5th of December in 1899. His father was the distinguished writer and artist Manuel Durán Durán and his mother was Dña. Inés Reynals Mallol. Francisco Durán-Reynals was the youngest of five sons born into this highly talented family. In 1917, he entered the Medical Faculty, from which he graduated in 1925. During the years 1925 to 1926, Francisco Durán-Reynals worked in the Pasteur Institute in Paris in the Department of Professor A. Besredka and Professor E. Wollman, and from 1926 at the Rockefeller Institute in New York in the Department of Cancer Research headed by Dr. J. B. Murphy. In 1938, he moved as a research professor to the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., where he stayed until his untimely death in 1958. The volume dedicated to him and written for the first Duràn-Reynals Symposium on Virus and Cancer in Barcelona (June 7, 1971), edited by 9