Ursula Klein on the life of Helmholtz and Virchow, who were instrumental in making Berlin one of the science hubs of Germany:

"In their day, the life of a scientist was considered a lifelong vocation encompassing all areas of life that ended only on death."

In the most recent issue of VerbundJournal titled "On the Trail of Helmholtz and Virchow", Catarina Pietschmann interviews Affiliated Scholar Ursula Klein on the lives of physician Rudolf Virchow and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, their legacy and what we can learn from them today.