A Lifelong Fascination With the Chick Embryo

摘要

Since the early days of developmental biology, Viktor Hamburger has inspired scientists. And at age 100, he isn't done yet. Breakfast is always at 8 a.m. A short walk, 11:30. At 4 p.m., a book—Thomas Mann, perhaps, or Goethe. Such is the carefully choreographed day of Viktor Hamburger. Inside his St. Louis home, Hamburger divides up the hours. Blue eyes dart to his watch again and again, instinctively. There is time for biographies, news, visitors. Yet there are few hours to waste. Hamburger is 100.