I,'OURTH SPECIAL AWARD 299 mirtee and Dr. L. D. Apperson, Chairman of the Literature Review Committee, fourteen investigators were nominated for this Award and their work reviewed before Dr. Montagna was selected. Dr. Montagna's publication, "The Structure and Function of the Skin" appeared in 1956. His over-all publications include over sixty papers and he is currently writing a textbook of comparative anatomy. In 1957 he organized a sym- posium in London at the Royal College of Surgeons on the "Biology of Hair Growth" and a book by the same title (in press) was edited by him. The Special Award was established in recognition of the relationship of basic scientific research to the development of cosmetic products. The honor goes to the author whose recent scientific papers offer the greatest potential value to cosmetic science. Dr. Albert M. Kligman, professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, gave the following biographical sketch and eulogy on Dr. Montagna: "Your secretary's letter inviting me to 'eulogize' Dr. Montagna alarmed me considerably. I thought he had died. When I learned instead that he had come into a goodly sum of money for doing what he likes to do most, namely, biological research, my sympathy degenerated into envy. However, I am certainly willing to concede that we should eulogize people who can make money without specifically working for it. Now my task of eulogizing would be simpler if Dr. Montagna had in fact obliged us by dying. After all, it is not expected that we should tell the truth about dead persons. We honor them by lying about them. It is also easy to love the deceased who are no longer around to bother us. What then am I to do when the eulogized sits before me watching me walk the tightrope between truth and good will? Shall I recite "vital" statistics, tell you when and where he was born, how he was schooled, trapped by marriage, etc? The script also calls for a phoney story of how the great man flunked the very subjects in which he is now eminent and how it was predicted that he would never be of any account. These are in fact "devitalized" statistics they tell little of the flesh and blood man, the private self, the passions, follies and fears which scientists are thought to have eliminated in their cold blooded quest for knowledge. The image of the coldly analytic, dehumanized scientist is a fiction. The truth is red hot and those who pursue it are always in a fever. No one exemplifies this more than Dr. Montagna. He is a passionate researcher totally possessed by what he does. He is an intense pile of intellectual radioactivity. It is impossible to be in his presence and remain unstimu- lated. The real measure of a scientist is not merely what he discovers but whom he activates. He must procreate his own kind and be father to sons who will carry on the scientific tradition. Dr. Montagna is only 45

300 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS years old, yet already has sired a large scientific family. I myself am a kind of bastard son of his, the product of a few chance encounters. His enthusiasm is so contagious that he is a real menace to me. A few minutes with him and I am ready to give up medicine and join his staff to work in the thrilling environment he creates. Phenobarbital constitutes my only defense against following such an impulse. It is said that nothing succeeds like success looking at Montagna, one is prompted to say that nothing succeeds like excess. He has by mortal stand- ards excess energy. Sleeping he abhors. He has excess drive, he can't wait to get on with the next project. He has excess curiosity to him the highest sin is not to know. He has excess brilliance and imagination. The modern scientific world is divided into a thousand kingdoms the barriers between the specialities are getting harder to break down. We are all living in our own little province, talking our own private jargon which is unintelligible to our neighbors. One of Dr. Montagna's greatest achievements has been the inauguration of the Brown Skin Symposia in 1951 where dermatologists and biologists annually congregate to discuss interdisciplinary matters. These conferences are a real joy of 'free speech.' Medicine after all is only a sub-division of biology. Despite the fact that Dr. Montagna was born in Italy and couldn't speak a word of English until he was fourteen, he is one of the most ar- ticulate of the English-speaking scientists. His writings are masterful. They are also numerous and diverse, reflecting the width of his interests. For a while he taught ornithology at Cornell and even illustrated a text- book on birds. He is an artist in his own right. His book "The Structure and Function of Skin" is a classic. Soon he will add another monument, a book on comparative anatomy. He has become so popular as a speaker and writer that the continuance of his career is threatened. His present distinction may be the direct cause of his extinction as a creative worker. He gave anatomy lectures at the University of London in 1953. Again in 1955 he went to London to participate in a Symposium on the Ageing of Transient Tissues. In 1957 he organized a symposium in London on the biology of hair growth, the proceedings of which are now in galleyproof. His rise has been meteoric. It was only in 1944 that he got his Ph.D. at Cornell. Eight years later he had already become a full professor in the biology department of Brown University where he now holds court. Truly great men are rarely narrow. Their talents are many. He plays the French horn so well that he almost became a professional musi- cian. He is a gardener, writer and artist. His main loves are normal skin, the arts, literature and his family. His aversions are fake and humbuggery, disorder, sloppy thinking, poetry, peddlers of cliches, and smooth talkers. The fact that he himself is a smooth talker shows only that we cannot stand our own faults in others.