William S. Heckscher
From 1918 to 1921, the family lived in the Netherlands while Heckscher's father served as the Weimar Republic's ambassador to The Hague; there, Heckscher enrolled at the Nederlandsch Lyceum. Heckscher pursued his interests in history and Flemish art by spending his off hours studying at the Dutch Royal Library, the Mauritshuis and the Kröller-Müller Museum, but was dismissed from the Lyceum in 1920 for "lack of scholarly potential". After the family returned to Hamburg, Heckscher attended the city's Kunstgewerbeschule, now the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, but failed a class in ceramics.
Eli Y. Adashi
Adashi was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, the only child of German-speaking professionals who departed Europe in the mid-1930s. A member of the first graduating class of the Sackler School of Medicine of Tel Aviv University, Adashi received his Medical degree in 1973. Following a Rotating Internship at the Meir Hospital, Adashi relocated to the United States for Residency Training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University under the leadership of George W. Mitchell, Jr., MD (1974–77). Adashi pursued Fellowship Training in the subspecialty of Reproductive Endocrinology and Postdoctoral Training in Reproductive Biology at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of California at San Diego, respectively (1977–81). Leading mentors included but were not limited to Georgeanna Seegar Jones, MD (1912-2005), Howard W. Jones, Jr., MD (1910-2015), Aaron J.W. Hsueh, PhD (1946-), and Samuel S.C. Yen, MD, DSc (1927-2007).