Artigo Revisado por pares

Alexander Borodin

1955; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 252; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm195502032520507

ISSN

1533-4406

Autores

Andrew Garland,

Tópico(s)

History and advancements in chemistry

Resumo

IT is unusual for a man to be able to follow with equal activity two such exacting and diversified fields of endeavor as science and music, without eventually foregoing one for the other. Alexander Borodin was one of the few extraordinary persons successful in both. His chemistry professor, Zinin, used to say: "Mister Borodin, please don't think so much of ballads when here I am believing in your future and trying to train you to succeed me. You can't hunt two hares at the same time."1 But hunt them he did.Alexander Porpheyrevich Borodin, born in 1834, was the natural . . .

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