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Now, about three years after having finished my career as an experimental scientist, I am reflecting what I did during this nearly uninterrupted period of 40 years. Did any of the results I obtained achieve the status of lasting scientific fact? Did I contribute to the knowledge in my field, immunology, or did most of it disappear in the vast realms of research gone by, forgotten, superseded by new, more enthralling information?
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(2008). Autobiographical note. In: The Network Collective. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8373-2_1
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