Gunnar Heckscher
Heckscher was born in Djursholm, son of economist Eli Heckscher. He graduated from Uppsala University in 1927 and obtained a PhD 1934. He lectured in political science at Uppsala between 1933 and 1941 and at what later became Stockholm University between 1941 and 1948. He was Dean of the Social Institute of Stockholm 1945-1954. He became a professor in 1948 and worked at both the Social Institute and at Stockholm University.
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).