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THE MEMOIR OF A FORTUNATE MAN chronicles the life of physician-scientist, Jean D. Wilson, M.D. From GROWING UP in the Texas panhandle through his decision to become an academic physician, to his pioneering research on the role of steroid hormones in sexual differentiation as a CLINICIAN/SCIENTIST, to his HOBBIES AND PREOCCUPATIONS as an ice cream maker and bird (and butterfly) watcher — his introspective memoir unfolds with a mixture of humor and humility. The 2018 revision expands on his career as an academic physician and offers an insightful glimpse of the place he calls "My Space".Seventy-two pictures (including two maps) bring Jean Wilson’s memoir to life as he celebrates events like the one hundredth anniversary of the Association of American Physicians and his 65th birthday, and shares his affection for penguins and his close-up-and-personal encounter with a Monarch butterfly in Mexico. The 246-page memoir includes the transcript from his 2012 interview for the “Journal of Clinical Investigation” and his complete curriculum vitae. Internet links take readers beyond the written page to videos where they can watch the entire JCI interview, enjoy Wilson’s colleagues poking fun and paying tribute to him in the 1996 “A Gentle Roast of Jean Wilson,” and see The Endocrine Society Oral History Collection recording of the 2010 interview with Jean Wilson. You do not have to be a scientist or physician to enjoy the memoir of this fifth generation Texan, nor to agree with the author that he has “had some successes and done some interesting things”. Jean D. Wilson passed away 11 June 2021. A tribute to him can be found on the following UT Southwestern website: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/in-memoriam-wilson.html

JEAN D. WILSON, M.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. A fifth generation Texan, he has spent most of his life in the state. After graduating from UT Austin and UT Southwestern, he was a house staff officer in Internal Medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas where his scientific career began. He then spent two post-graduate years in the Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health before joining the UT Southwestern faculty in 1960. There, for the next 51 years, he served as a teacher and mentor, attending physician, and research scientist. A pioneer in the field of endocrinology, the primary focus of his work was on the mechanism by which hormones act to control the formation of the two sexes during embryogenesis—studies that led to understanding of many conditions of human intersex and to his election to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. In addition, he edited medical textbooks and the “Journal of Clinical Investigation”, traveled extensively, became an avid bird watcher, and is a fan of symphonic music and opera.