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Nature 452, 411-412 (27 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/452411a; Published online 26 March 2008

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From prisoner-of-war to head of Europe's space agency, astrophysicist Reimar Lüst reflects on his career.

BOOK REVIEWEDDer Wissenschaftsmacher

Reimar Lüst in dialogue with Paul Nolte

C. H. Beck: 2008. 300 pp. euro dollar24.90 (in German)

Reimar Lüst was born into a pious household in the west German town of Barmen on 25 March 1923. His rebirth, as he calls it, came 20 years later in the icy-cold waters of the Bay of Biscay in the North Atlantic.