I am amazed by the strange and wondrous ways in which the dots that are human lives connect. I did not know anything about Johanna Spector earlier. C.V. Raman won the Nobel prize for Physics in 1930. He was the first non-white/Asian to win the prize. He wrote a newspaper article on the books that influenced him. Among those was Ì¢âÂÒThe Sensations of Tone - A Physiological Basis for the Theory of MusicÌ¢âÂå by Hermann Helmholtz, one of RamanÌ¢âÂã¢s heroes. In 2015 I found a scanned copy of RamanÌ¢âÂã¢s article and ordered a used copy of Ì¢âÂÒThe Sensations of ToneÌ¢âÂå. When I got the book in the mail, on the front page was written in faded black ink: Ì¢âÂÒJohanna Spector, New York, August 1954Ì¢âÂå. I wanted to know who the previous owner of my book was and a quick Google search brought me here. Like Dr. Spector, I emigrated to the US. I grew up in Kerala, the state in India that harbored the jews of Cochin who were the subject of her studies. I still have family in Cochin. It seems strangely appropriate that her copy of that book came to be mine.
I am amazed by the strange and wondrous ways in which the dots that are human lives connect. I did not know anything about Johanna Spector earlier. C.V. Raman won the Nobel prize for Physics in 1930. He was the first non-white/Asian to win the prize. He wrote a newspaper article on the books that influenced him. Among those was Ì¢âÂÒThe Sensations of Tone - A Physiological Basis for the Theory of MusicÌ¢âÂå by Hermann Helmholtz, one of RamanÌ¢âÂã¢s heroes. In 2015 I found a scanned copy of RamanÌ¢âÂã¢s article and ordered a used copy of Ì¢âÂÒThe Sensations of ToneÌ¢âÂå. When I got the book in the mail, on the front page was written in faded black ink: Ì¢âÂÒJohanna Spector, New York, August 1954Ì¢âÂå. I wanted to know who the previous owner of my book was and a quick Google search brought me here. Like Dr. Spector, I emigrated to the US. I grew up in Kerala, the state in India that harbored the jews of Cochin who were the subject of her studies. I still have family in Cochin. It seems strangely appropriate that her copy of that book came to be mine.