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Lilianna Solnica-Krezel was raised in a very small and very beautiful city in Poland. Sandomierz is its name and it was more important in medieval times than it is today. As a young girl, she was interested in many things, including poetry and literature. She thought that she might become a journalist. Her older brother, Bogdan, on the other hand, was interested in medicine. There were only two government-controlled television channels and not a lot to do. So she began reading some of the books he brought home and helped him out with his entries in science competitions. Then she stumbled across a thick book about the physiology of organisms. "I started to read it, and every chapter was a total revelation to me," she says. "One chapter discussed development and I was totally fascinated. Another chapter was on lung function and I was captivated. The same was true for the chapter on glycolysis. I’d been reading literature and all that, but the science was just a fantastic thing for me. I got hooked on biology and from then on my life was simple."
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