The Generation Gap

Today is the eighteenth yahrzeit of my father, Professor Michael Slifkin, of blessed memory, pictured above with me at my wedding, nearly 25 years ago. He was a wonderfully patient and good-natured father, a brilliant scientist, a very down-to-earth and sensible person, and a man of outstanding integrity. In a career spanning biochemistry, physics, electronics, membrane biology, and nanoparticles (among other things), he published 197 papers, including 11 in the prestigious journal Nature. He ne...