Zoltan Ovary

Photograph of Zoltan Ovary, MD (1907-2005), who organized the dinner meeting at which Pathology Department Chairman Chandler Stetson invited Michael Heidelberger, the father of immuno-chemistry, to work at NYU. Ovary and Heidelberger are shown here with Dr. Ovary's's students Robert Tigelaar (L), who became a professor of dermatology at Yale and Domenico Mancino (R), who became director of the University of Naples. Dr. Ovary became a member of the New York University School of Medicine faculty in 1959.