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"Dr. Stefan Karsky, a professor of microbiology at Harvard University and former associate of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, died in a drowning accident on the island of St. John of the Virgin Islands. A resident of Magnolia, he was 68. |
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"Born in Poland, Dr. Karsky moved to this country with his family in 1949 following the Allied liberation of Eastern Europe. Three of Mr. Karsky's childhood years were spent in concentration camps at Treblinka and Dachau. |
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"Dr. Karsky graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and received a doctorate in biology from the University of Chicago in 1958. From 1960 until 1967 he taught microbiology at Stanford University. He joined the faculty at Harvard in 1973 following six years of research for the government. |
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"Dr. Karsky was a former trustee of St. Elizabeth's Hospital and president of the American Institute of Immunology from 1967 to 1970. He was also the author of numerous articles and books, including a seminal text, 'Principles of Immunology' published in 1978. |
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"On sabbatical leave since January, Dr. Karsky was working on the fourth revision of that book while using the marine research facilities of the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas. His daughter and granddaughter were with him for a week's visit." |
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The photograph they had run of Karsky was recent. But to Jack Perry's eyes he hadn't lost his boyish good looks in the nearly twenty-five years since those days when they were quartered in a squat, windowless cinder-block bunker off the beaten path where |
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