A coincidence among scientists of three nationalities.
Dr. Fukuju Yamamoto’s photos; Memphis, TN; March, 2009
In my work as a graduate student, I have had the good fortune of being a participant with the research of Japanese scientists studying the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the wetlands of Louisiana. On this particular trip, Dr. Yamamoto showed me some photos he took during a recent research trip he’d taken to Arizona. He told me that he stayed with a friend of his that he knew for many years. As I looked at the photos, I realized that his host and friend was a guy I had worked with as an undergraduate in Dr. Jack’s lab at the University of Louisville. I asked Dr. Yamamoto if that was Kumud Acharya, and he looked amazed that I knew his name. He was rather astounded when I explained how I knew him. Then I listened amazed at the story of how Dr. Yamamoto knew Kumud: Kumud had come from his home in Nepal to complete his Master’s degree in a lab in the same department that Dr. Yamamoto works in, in Tottori, Japan, and they had remained friends ever since. Even the usually unflappable Dr. Yamamoto looked pretty surprised by this happenstance.
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