Eventually [Vamsi] Mootha headed off to Stanford University, then Harvard medical school where he works today.<\/p>\n
A half-dozen or so years ago, Mootha found out he had a lot of company in being mentored by George Berzsenyi.<\/p>\n
“I share an office with somebody named Joel Hirschhorn<\/a>,” Mootha tells me. Hirschhorn is a geneticist at Harvard and the Broad Institute. Mootha and Hirschhorn were trying to solve a math problem related to their work.<\/p>\n “Joel is up at the board, he’s drawing out some equations,” Mootha recalls. “After we worked on the problem, we’re just reminiscing about our high school days in mathematics.<\/p>\n “So I start to tell Joel about how I got this letter after winning a science fair,” Mootha says, “and before I could actually finish that sentence, he actually asked me, ‘Wait. Did that letter come from somebody named George Berzsenyi?’ And I said, ‘Yes, how do you know?’ And he said, ‘I used to communicate with George Berzsenyi also.’ ”<\/p>\n Hirschhorn would send in solutions to problems in a math newsletter Berzsenyi edited.<\/p>\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n What do some of the best mathematicians and scientists in the country have in common? George Berzsenyi’s mentorship. https:\/\/t.co\/0ZYUAZWGp1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 NPR (@NPR) April 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n