Retirement slowing down

Retirement consists of distinct phases. Following a transition, there are periods of active living, slowing down, and assisted living. Each should be anticipated and enjoyed. 

We meet maybe twice a year at various meetings and I try to visit his lab whenever I make it to Switzerland. It s really sad that the Swiss academic system forces him to retire, very prematurely I d say. He s been doing fantastic novel experiments for well over 30 years now and there are no signs of him slowing down. His enthusiasm really rubs off on the whole NMR community, so I hope he will stay active for a long time to come. 

Injections of a yucca/alpine sunflower extract, as developed by now-retired University of Wyoming chemistry professor Owen Asplund, have bear reported to be used successfully in Switzerland against melanoma, and presumably may act as an enzyme inhibitor. Incidentally, the injections are given in the stomach area, which slows down the assimilation of a potent vaccine, as was practiced with the old rabies vaccine. 

On retirement from Stanford he co-founded the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Palo Alto, California, from where he continued his scientifically controversial, though widely disseminated, advocacy of high doses of vitamin C to improve health and slow down ageing. He remained active in research until nearly the end of his life, in 1994 [Mason, 1997, 37-8],... 

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