The structure of D. radiodurans.

I RECENTLY ORDERED A BOOK, BASIC COLOR Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1), through an online book dealer. The book was simply advertised as a " used book, first edition, dust jacket, good condition. " When it arrived, I opened the front cover and found a bookplate from The Rockefeller University and a tag with the words " Laboratory book—Dr. Hartline. " It has been 20 years since Haldane Keffer Hartline passed away. Hartline shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 with Ragnar Granit and George Wald. He was a mentor to many neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and Rockefeller University. I am a direct " academic descendant " of his. My graduate advisor lineage can be traced back through Maureen Powers, Stephen Easter Jr., and Edward MacNichol Jr. to " Keff " Hartline. Words cannot express my feelings about owning a book that was owned by my graduate adviser's adviser's adviser's adviser. We in science need to give thanks to our mentors and those who have blazed the trails before us in our respective fields; we also need to continue to be cognizant of our students and how we may influence them directly or indirectly. In the words of Hartline from his banquet speech at the Nobel ceremony, " Tack sa mycket. " Thank you very much.