Afterword
My main mentor was mother who formed my attitude toward medicine by her
personal example: her attitude to work and her capacity to work, ability to communicate with people, to always render help, to be useful to others no matter what kind
of problems they have. Her advice, lessons and instructions helped me to define my
purpose in life. Being a teacher of the Russian language and literature, wittingly
or unwittingly she instilled in me first and then in his grandson (my son) Andrew
the feeling of love and respect to medicine, which determined the future of our
professions.
Medical studies have always attracted me. But I knew, or rather felt, that medicine
is one of the most complex sciences, and it requires special training, and, for some
reasons, particularly deep knowledge of physics and mathematics. From time to
time, I had hesitations. First I entered the Physics Department of the Leningrad State
University, after the first year, I suddenly decided to transfer to the First Medical
Institute, and when the question with my transferring had almost been decided,
I told myself that I would move to medicine only after the graduation from the
Physics Department. When I successfully graduated from the Physics Department
and received a diploma in physics, I suddenly realized that I had to come to medicine
only after defending my doctoral thesis. And only after that I would be able to
comprehend the mysteries of medicine.
At the same time, the voice from above suggested me: “Think about holography,”
a scientific direction, about which at that time—it was in 1966—little was known,
especially at the undergraduate level.
Having defended the thesis in the field of holography, I immediately began to
develop the sphere—holography in medicine and biology. I was so much fascinated
with this problem that on the basis of the results of my own works and studies of
foreign authors, I prepared a well-illustrated (with hologram format of 30 × 40 cm
2 )
report on the theme “Holography in Biology and Medicine,” which I presented to
public several times in the USSR and abroad. Like many young scientists, I believed
that at the meeting point of physics and medicine, I would soon be able to discover
something inaccessible to others. That was the main goal of my work. It was very
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license
to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
L. Tanin et al., Biomedical and Resonance Optics, Bioanalysis 11,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60773-9
503
My main mentor was mother who formed my attitude toward medicine by her
personal example: her attitude to work and her capacity to work, ability to communicate with people, to always render help, to be useful to others no matter what kind
of problems they have. Her advice, lessons and instructions helped me to define my
purpose in life. Being a teacher of the Russian language and literature, wittingly
or unwittingly she instilled in me first and then in his grandson (my son) Andrew
the feeling of love and respect to medicine, which determined the future of our
professions.
Medical studies have always attracted me. But I knew, or rather felt, that medicine
is one of the most complex sciences, and it requires special training, and, for some
reasons, particularly deep knowledge of physics and mathematics. From time to
time, I had hesitations. First I entered the Physics Department of the Leningrad State
University, after the first year, I suddenly decided to transfer to the First Medical
Institute, and when the question with my transferring had almost been decided,
I told myself that I would move to medicine only after the graduation from the
Physics Department. When I successfully graduated from the Physics Department
and received a diploma in physics, I suddenly realized that I had to come to medicine
only after defending my doctoral thesis. And only after that I would be able to
comprehend the mysteries of medicine.
At the same time, the voice from above suggested me: “Think about holography,”
a scientific direction, about which at that time—it was in 1966—little was known,
especially at the undergraduate level.
Having defended the thesis in the field of holography, I immediately began to
develop the sphere—holography in medicine and biology. I was so much fascinated
with this problem that on the basis of the results of my own works and studies of
foreign authors, I prepared a well-illustrated (with hologram format of 30 × 40 cm
2 )
report on the theme “Holography in Biology and Medicine,” which I presented to
public several times in the USSR and abroad. Like many young scientists, I believed
that at the meeting point of physics and medicine, I would soon be able to discover
something inaccessible to others. That was the main goal of my work. It was very
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license
to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
L. Tanin et al., Biomedical and Resonance Optics, Bioanalysis 11,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60773-9
503