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unusual facts about Sabbatical year


Abba b. Martha

Notwithstanding his pecuniary straits, Abba did not take advantage of the Biblical and Talmudic law, according to which the Sabbatical year cancels all debts.



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Alfred Mirsky

During a sabbatical year at the California Institute of Technology, Mirsky published a paper with Linus Pauling on the general theory of protein structure, suggesting that the structure of proteins are coiled in a specific configuration that accounts for the function in the body, and that the protein is denatured when that configuration is lost by breaking the hydrogen bonds that stabilize the structure.

Clyde A. Hutchison III

In 1996 Hutchison spent a sabbatical year at TIGR; there he discussed with Hamilton Smith and Craig Venter the idea of a minimum cell - cell with the minimal set of genes required for survival.

Hans G. Hornung

He worked in the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Melbourne (1962–63, and 1965–67), and in the Physics Department of the Australian National University (1967–80), with a sabbatical year as a Humboldt Fellow in Darmstadt, Germany, 1974.

László Fassang

As part of his studies he spent a sabbatical year in Japan, where he became the resident organist of the Sapporo Concert Hall.

Paul McMenamin

In 2007, he was an Honorary Professor at the Lions Eye Institute’s Centre for Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, and in 2008 spent his sabbatical year at the Institute.

Wilfrid Rall

In 1954 he spent a sabbatical year at University College London in the Biophysics Department headed by Bernard Katz, and after a final year in Dunedin (where he was Acting Head of Department) he then moved to Bethesda, Maryland and the National Institutes of Health, where he remained until his retirement in 1994.