Memories and after-effects of a year (1958-59) as student and resident at Istituto di Fisiologia in Pisa

Abstract

In the1950s, the Institute of Anatomy in Oslo and of Physiology in Pisa were in close contact and exchanged visitors. I was a medical student at the time, and on Professor Alf Brodal’s recommendation Professor Giuseppe Moruzzi welcomed me to Pisa to do research and even offered me a room in the Institute to live in. The year was 1958-1959, which for me it turned out very rewarding and decisive for my later choice of career. In this paper I describe some of my memories from that time and, briefly, some of my pursuits in science after that time.