The Travelling Years - Stockholm, Cambridge and Cornell

While Herwig was moving around from place to place in Germany, establishing institutes and moving swiftly upwards through the academic ranks, he also had the opportunity to travel. While it was in Germany that he honed the skills as a scientific administrator and diplomat that would come to define his later career, it was on his travels that he did some of his most interesting research. “This time characterises to some extent my whole scientific life,” he recalled, “I moved up in energy every 10 years or so by a large factor, and this meant that at each step I had to re-establish myself in a new scientific community.”