Enoch Jay M
School of Optometry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-2020, USA.
Hindsight. 2007 Jan;38(1):8-13.
The late Prof. Dr. Hans Goldmann took a well-earned year of sabbatical leave, shortly after having stepped down as Rector Magnificus of the University of Berne, Switzerland and from his Chairmanship of the Department of Ophthalmology in the School of Medicine at the University of Berne, Switzerland. Hans spent that sabbatical year at the Department of Ophthalmology at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, MO. He and Bernard Becker (and many of us in the Department) were longtime associates and friends. And what a year it was! Those who were present still speak of it with awe and respect. What fun, what excitement - what work! Each of us had a variety of fascinating personal interactions with Hans. However, a single set of salient experiences stands out in all of our memories! Earlyon, he established a daily routine of going from laboratory to laboratory on the 10th and 11th floors of McMillan Hospital in order to conduct daily bench rounds with each of the individual faculty/investigators. Mornings, he would appear in a well pressed and fresh lab coat, greet us with a gleaming smile, and upon entry into your lab, he would ask, "Huh, Huh, so what's new today?" And it was expected that you would have new data, or experimental results to show to him! He would then ask penetrating questions about your work, techniques employed, the data presented, etc., as well as make suggestions for improvements. He also usually had some kind words of encouragement. If you did not have something new, he had something new and exciting to tell you of his own! Questions on the latter were almost always considerably more difficult to answer, than if you had something new to offer! As a result, the research faculty and staffs were literally driven to a creative frenzy in order to have something new to discuss or to demonstrate when the good Professor made his anticipated daily entry into the laboratory. The faculty operated in high gear. Every morning, the techs would lean out of our doors, and indicate to their investigator toiling away, "He is coming very soon; he is in the next lab now!" Oh, to finish in time!
已故的汉斯·戈德曼教授在卸任瑞士伯尔尼大学校长以及瑞士伯尔尼大学医学院眼科系主任一职后，理所当然地休了一年的学术假。汉斯在密苏里州圣路易斯市的华盛顿大学医学院眼科系度过了这一学术假年。他和伯纳德·贝克尔（以及我们系里的许多人）是长期的同事和朋友。那是怎样的一年啊！当时在场的人至今仍怀着敬畏之情谈论着它。多么有趣，多么令人兴奋——又有多少工作要做！我们每个人都与汉斯进行了各种引人入胜的个人交流。然而，在我们所有人的记忆中，有一组突出的经历格外引人注目！一开始，他就养成了每天的惯例，前往麦克米兰医院10楼和11楼的各个实验室，以便与每位教师/研究人员进行日常的实验台查房。每天早上，他都会穿着熨烫得笔挺、崭新的实验室工作服出现，脸上带着灿烂的笑容迎接我们，一走进你的实验室，他就会问：“嗯，嗯，今天有什么新进展？”而且大家都期望你能有新的数据或实验结果给他看！然后他会就你的工作、所采用的技术、所展示的数据等提出尖锐的问题，并给出改进建议。他通常也会说一些鼓励的好话。如果你没有新东西，他会有自己的新的、令人兴奋的事情告诉你！关于后者的问题几乎总是比你有新东西要汇报时更难回答！结果，研究人员和工作人员真的被激发到了创造性的狂热状态，以便在这位优秀的教授按预期每天进入实验室时，有新的东西可以讨论或展示。全体教员都全力以赴。每天早上，技术员们会探出头来，向正在辛苦工作的研究人员示意：“他很快就来了；他现在在隔壁实验室！”哦，要及时完成！
