By Martha Henry Like a lot of boys growing up in the Soviet Union in the 1960s, Vladimir Novitsky wanted to be an astronaut. While his counterparts in the U.S. idolized John Glenn, his hero was Yuri Gagarin, the first man to successfully orbit the Earth. Novitsky comes from a scientific family. His mother was a microbiologist and his father a gynecologist. Perhaps because of parental influence, medicine eventually won…
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