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TEN YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP WITH SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING



N or I can help it, sometimes my memory is so very true that it seems as if I had happened yesterday.

T enia fourteen and I sensed, very clearly, what would my future destiny: biological research, research at the end ...

C big rush on any data pointing that obtained after long hours of observation alone in the table of the microscope ...

T to was my obsession, notebook after notebook, handwritten notes were filling up, the observed microscopic photographs and personal interpretations of what happened

M uch attention must have therefore I do not know in what way, one of those books ended up at that, to me, was my first and decisive teacher: Professor Florencio Bustinza, eminent scientist and botanist, late desgraciadamete.

Dedication I realize the teacher, in one of his books

N o not forget the wonderful evenings spent in his presence while I was teaching, with his microscope brought specially for the occasion, the rotational movement of chloroplasts around the nucleus in a cell of an alga Elodea, which previously had taken from its center Research: Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid which was very famous scientific member (my children as far as possible, I have tried some of these wonderful experiences ...)

A D. Florencio was struck by how I, without means or any knowledge, could perform microscopic images and, therefore, asked me teach him how, and what he did.

lens camera (single lens objective) with a single speed and a single diaphragm

S Morrocotudo or surprise to find that, by camera used a simple lens, without possible variation of diaphragms, or speed (Kodak Instamatic) and by microscope a little more than a toy, 450 increases ...

P much amazing erosion resulted him the way to unite the two apparatuses for the image: ocular and objective fit almost perfectly, a piece black electrical tape finished perfecting the "invention."

Joint Kodak Instamatic camera and microscope of 450 Thais increases

Camera and microscope, still perfectly preserved.
The microscope, even, I used to measure the resolution of optical films and,
when it is not critical or necessarily very accurate

M and be hard to believe, if not Had he lived, a great character, as was Don Florencio Bustinza, eminent man and personal friend of Sir Alexander Fleming, Don Gregorio Marañon and other leading scientists of the time, was devoted to "waste" time with a boy of fourteen ...

R eleyendo one of the books I dedicate ( Ten years of friendship with Sir Alexander Fleming ) and keep it ever since with great affection, I find this description of D. Alexander and D. Gregorio Marañón when the three agreed on the house, Don Gregorio, held in Toledo. The faithfully transcribed in honor and memory of my teacher:

"Al I write this I can not escape the memory of the physical death of Don Gregorio, which occurred on March 27, 1960 -, but spiritually, for those who have received their teaching and continually read books, Don Gregorio is living, because the enormous work of thought is eternal and, like the great work of Sir Alexander, the phrase can be applied Horace demanded

monumentum aere perennius ( "I completed a work that lasted more than bronze" ).

seeing them together in these two extraordinary men I could not help mentally reviewing your "personal items "..../... They had exceptional talent and observers were acute, clairvoyance. Both had learned in the Book of Nature and Life. were tireless workers, who devoted themselves with enthusiasm unsurpassed discovery of truth .../... were magnanimous, always willing to help others, encouraging and stimulating starting with a deep sense of human solidarity.

Both were men of facts, realities, and his writings were clear, concise, truthful, sincere, devoid of empty rhetoric. Both were endowed with that moral beauty, which is the foundation of civilization ....." I think

, D. Florencio, also fit into this description and that was the reason of their "lost" time with me ...
Unfortunately, I have the impression that this society has forgotten those values \u200b\u200b....

S Irvan these notes as a reminder of them and personal tribute to D. Florencio Bustinza, my first and best teacher. Javier


Azurmendi
June 2008