The Journal of Virology : a Personal Retrospective
| Autor: | Robert R. Wagner |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Virology. 73:3515-3519 |
| ISSN: | 1098-5514 0022-538X |
| DOI: | 10.1128/jvi.73.5.3515-3519.1999 |
| Popis: | As the title suggests, this article does not pretend to be a history of the Journal of Virology. When Tom Shenk asked me to write a minireview about the history of the Journal of Virology for the American Society for Microbiology centennial celebration, I accepted with alacrity. After all, as founding editor in chief, a position I held for 15 years, I not only had an obligation to undertake this review but also had a fairly large stake in the future as well as the past of this enterprise. Gradually, I began to have second thoughts and some misgivings about accepting the offer to write such a history. It dawned on me that I had kept no records of the events that led to the founding of the journal or of its early history. In fact, I had disposed of all my Journal of Virology files a few years ago when I gave up my chairman’s office. All I had to rely on for such an undertaking was my memory, undoubtedly faulty and progressively so as the years go by. Therefore, this article can in no way be construed as true, documented history; it is instead the reminiscences of someone who is a bit too close to his subject but, nevertheless, feels that he has retained his objectivity. In fact, many of the events are still vividly impressed on my mind and quite clearly retrievable. What I cannot be held accountable for are the exact dates and exact sequences of events. I must leave the precise details, chapter and verse, to a real historian who is willing to dig up and go through all the documentation as well as to interview all the relevant players in this saga, which would be no mean task. |
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