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Milan Hašek, Lymphokines and Retroviruses

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I will never forget, for many reasons, the moment I first met Milan Hašek. It was in 1972 when I attended (as an undergraduate student) a scientific meeting held at the “Dejvice” branch of the Institute of Experimental Biology and Genetics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague (now the Institute of Molecular Genetics), the institute Milan Hašek founded. In one of the men’s rooms of the Institute I met a tall man whom I thought I had never seen before. Nevertheless, he started to tell me a joke - talking to me as if to someone he had known for years : “There were two university students, one from Oxford and the second one from Cambridge, having done what we are doing now. The Oxford student says:’ We are taught in Oxford that after p***ing we should wash our hands.’ The second student replies, ‘Most interesting, but we are taught in Cambridge how not to p*** on our hands!’” At that time I did not have the slightest idea who the man was and how decisive my encounters with him would be.

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Malkovský, M. (1989). Milan Hašek, Lymphokines and Retroviruses. In: Ivanyi, P. (eds) Realm of Tolerance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74712-0_4

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