In the year 2014, the ‘cytomegalovirus community’ of researchers commemorated the 60th anniversary of cytomegalovirus isolation by Margaret Gladys Smith (1896–1970), former faculty member and Professor of Pathology at the Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine (Fig. 1). The year 1954 brought a number of chronicle events: the ‘birth’ of cytomegalovirus in Saint Louis/Missouri, a total solar eclipse, the ‘Niagara rock fall’, the ‘miracle of Bern,’ and, last and least, a baby boy was born in the Bavarian Alps for whom the scientific achievements by Margaret Gladys Smith should become sort of destiny.
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