As the lyrics of an old song go, "Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage."
- By BOBBIE COLLINS
But what about love and work? Or love and medicine? Or love and science? What about couples who share their homes and work side by side in the lab? Or those who found love in the hospital?
Harvard Medical School has its share of faculty twosomes - on the Quad and at HMS-affiliated hospitals. With Valentine's Day this month, Harvard Medicine News talked with three of them: A couple who has collaborated closely in the lab since 1979; another who met while working together on a clinical hospital study, and a third that met at an HMS departmental happy hour.
Here's an inside look at how their marriages thrive alongside bustling careers in the lab, clinic, and classroom.
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Tomas Kirchhausen, professor of cell biology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS and professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital
Stephen Harrison, the Giovanni Armenise - Harvard Professor of Basic Biomedical Science in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS and professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital
When they met: 1978, at the University of Chicago, where Harrison gave a seminar about the first atomic structure of a virus visualized by X-ray crystallography
When they married: 2013, soon after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which denied a range of benefits to legally married gay couples.
Combined years in medicine: 97
