important scientists who were his friends helped me, too. I was interested in my work and I did not take one day's holiday during the next two years. I did not go home, and my letters to my family were very short. After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university. My machine would help me answer the most important question of all How does life begin? Is it possible to put life into dead things? To answer these questions about life I had to learn first about death. I had to watch bodies from the moment when they died and the warm life left them. In the hospital and in the university, I watched the dying and the dead. Day after day, mont after month, I followed death. It was a dark and terrible time. Then one day, the answer came to me. Suddenly I was sure that I knew the secret of life. I knew that I could put