Bratislava Pressburg Pozsony

A. Robert Neurath, PhD was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Technical University (Bratislava) in 1957. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and was awarded a doctorate in microbiology at the Technical University, Vienna, Austria, in 1968. For over 45 years he was involved in research on viruses: influenza, rabies, hepatitis B, the human immunodeficiency virus I, and on vaccines against these viruses. His studies resulted in about 250 scientific paters, including monographs and book chapters, and 23 patents. After the demise of communism, he visited Bratislava and read new books dealing with the city's and Slovakia's Jewish community. These publications, as judged by the author, have given insufficient credit to the endeavors and accomplishments of local Jewish professionals and businessmen, and of those who emigrated. The author has taken upon himself to amend this apparent inattention. The present book is the result of these efforts.