Explorers is a series of profiles on researchers and scientists from Duke’s first century who helped establish the start-up young university’s scholarly credentials and reputation for boundary-breaking work. Their explorations laid the foundation for important later discoveries and the university’s rise to its current standing as a world-class research institution.
Fritz London
When German-Jewish chemist Fritz London moved his family to Duke University in 1939 for a new faculty job, his wife and young son escaped imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps by mere hours.
