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Cambridge to Paris and America.


Cambridge To Paris And America

Donald R. Maxwell

The Edwin Mellen Press

PO Box 450, Lewiston, NY 14092

0773458638 $99.95 www.mellenpress.com

The sequel autobiography to "A Journey from Wartime Europe to self- Discovery", Cambridge To Paris And America: A Second Journey Of Discovery by Donald R. Maxwell (Faculty of Medicine, University of Cambridge, and French Literature doctorate, University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. ) offers the reader a blend of narrative scholarship that showcases the life of a research scientist from having earned his doctorate at Cambridge University Cambridge University, at Cambridge, England, one of the oldest English-language universities in the world. Originating in the early 12th cent. (legend places its origin even earlier than that of Oxford Univ. , to his work in the Curie Institute
  • the Curie Institute in Paris, a research foundation.
  • the Curie Institute in Warsaw, a cancer research and treatment center
 in Paris, to his having earned a second doctorate in French literature back in America, and finally settling down in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as  with his wife Catherine with whom he had eight children. Enhanced with a block of period photographs, Cambridge To Paris And America is a finely presented and highly recommended memoir memoir

History or record composed from personal observation and experience. Closely related to autobiography, a memoir differs chiefly in the degree of emphasis on external events.
 showcasing both academic and family life.
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Title Annotation:Cambridge to Paris and America: A Second Journey of Discovery
Author:Dunford, Michael
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Date:Apr 1, 2006
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