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Professor Milan Hašek is famous for his discovery of immunological tolerance. However, I believe that Hašek’s greatest scientific achievement was the creation of the Institute for Experimental Biology and Genetics (IEBG) in Prague, Czechoslovakia, an unparalleled research center of its time. In the atmosphere of enthusiasm, free thinking, and individual freedom at the IEBG, Milan Hašek launched the careers of dozens of young scientists whom he fished out of the muddy waters of Czechoslovak society of the 1950s and 1960s, with admirable intuition and personal courage. Many of those scientists left the institute after 1968 to live and work abroad. Their contributions to scientific development in various countries represent the continuing influence of Milan Hašek on international science.
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Cerny, J. (1989). Tolerance and the Immune Network. T Cells Reactive to the Variable Domains of Immunoglobulins. In: Ivanyi, P. (eds) Realm of Tolerance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74712-0_3
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