Latvian Scientist Jānis Stradiņš Turns 80
Latvian Scientist Jānis Stradiņš Turns 80

Summary/Abstract: Jānis Stradiņš will celebrate his 80th birthday on 10 December 2013. Having authored several hundred scientific articles and 28 books about a wide variety of subjects, he is the best known and one of the most productive scientists in Latvia. Stradiņš studied chemistry and was quite successful in his profession, but his activities were not limited to chemistry. His father, the well-known Latvian surgeon, Pauls Stradiņš (1896–1958) was very interested in history of medicine and since 1953 was the director of the association of historians of medicine. In the early 1930s he started a private collection on history of medicine and the collection became the basis of the Pauls Stradiņš Museum for the History of Medicine, founded in 1957.

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