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An Overview

Margaret H. D. Smith, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1979;133(10):1058-1060.

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The honor of receiving the Abraham Jacobi Award is indeed tremendous, and how lucky I am to come to the lovely city of Toronto to receive it! When I look at the list of my predecessors upon whom the Award has been conferred, I feel quite out of place. Perhaps the Award is because I have lived so long, moved around so much, and so greatly enjoyed my work and my life.

On such emotional occasions, one thinks of one's family, teachers, and friends and of the fortunate circumstances that have permitted one's development. Oswald Veblen, for many years a professor of mathematics at Princeton and a great friend of our family, once pointed out to me when I was a child, that human beings are like the pine trees of the forest: for every one that has the opportunity to grow to its full potential, thousands of seeds fall . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, Ochsner Medical Institutions, New Orleans.

Footnotes
Presented as the 1979 Jacobi Memorial Address before the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Toronto, April 24, 1979.

Reprint requests to Ochsner Clinic, 1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121 (Dr Smith).

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