Today is my dad’s 94th birthday, except he’s not here to celebrate it with us, having passed away in November 1998, a little more than a month before he would’ve turned 78.
I noted his birthday by adding a picture to his Wikipedia page – I wonder how long it’ll stay.
Thanks to linked data, you now get a knowledge card when you do a Google search:
Knowledge card for my dad
But I don’t know any of those associated people, except David de Wied. He was not only a colleague of my dad’s, but also a dear family friend, the father of our host family when we lived in the Netherlands in 1968. My dad took a sabbatical from the University of Pittsburgh, and got a Fullbright fellowship to go work with Dr. de Wied for 6 months. We left right after Martin Luther King was shot, and returned to the US right after Bobby Kennedy was shot. I had my 13th birthday in Holland. Given the events at home, I think parents really wanted to stay, but didn’t know what they’d do for money when the Fullbright ran out.
We met a Gary Schwartz on the boat over, but he is an art historian, specializing in Rembrandt. I’ve got his book, Rembrandt : his life, his paintings : a new biography with all accessible paintings illustrated in colour (Book, 1985) [WorldCat.org] sitting on a shelf in a bookcase with a bunch of my parents’ coffee table books.
I don’t know if it’s a linked data failing, or simply my lack of knowledge of the prominent researchers in my dad’s field. If I search MedLine, using Shapiro AP, the list of articles retrieved is full of names of the docs I remember from my childhood, because they used to come over for dinner, or their kids delivered the newspaper, or I babysat their kids, or we went skiing with them. McDonald RH Jr, Cooper WM, Bahnson HT, Traub YM, Tisherman SE, Misage JR, Rodnan GP, Murdaugh HV, Scheib E (one of the few women), Shaver JA, Sapira JD, de Jong W, Nicotero JA, Drew FL, Moriarty RW, Moutsos SE (I think we went to his wedding, in the same place we had my dad’s memorial, in Pittsburgh), Turrian HE.
Oh, and look here’s that other Gary Schwartz, from an article published in 1979.
Journal of behavioral medicine. 1979 Dec;2(4):311-63.
“Behavioral medicine approaches to hypertension: an integrative analysis of theory and research.”
Schwartz GE, Shapiro AP, Redmond DP, Ferguson DC, Ragland DR, Weiss SM.
