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On May 4, 1983 I received a letter from Manuel Cardona supporting my scholarship for a research stay in his institute in Stuttgart—the sequence of events triggered by this letter has probably shaped my life more than any other document. I was at that time a Ph.D. student and wanted to do my thesis work abroad. I wrote a letter to him with a recommendation from my advisor. Manuel’s reply came a couple of weeks later: it was a short (one page long) letter where he supported my application and briefly sketched a research plan, which turned, with slight modifications, into my Ph.D. thesis a few years later.
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Manuel advised approximately 80 Ph.D. students, 9 while at Brown University and 72 in Stuttgart (I thank S. Birtel from the Max-Planck-Institut, Stuttgart for providing this information).
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Pablo, if still among us, would tell this story with much more vivid details. Unfortunately, he passed away 2 years ago after a long disease. Manuel (together with Eric le Ru) wrote a moving memoir about him (which can be found in http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/organisation/academy/fellowship/obituaries/pablo-gabriel-etchegoin/).
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Santos, P.V. (2016). Reminiscences of Stuttgart. In: Ensslin, K., Viña, L. (eds) Manuel Cardona. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20343-0_36
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