Pedro Lilienfeld

And Other Tidbits2020 The Early Years in Quito My professional career followed unforeseen paths that to some extent mirror my family’s peripatetic wanderings. Although, initially, it appeared as if I were to proceed along a predictable direction, perhaps following my father’s electrical engineering footsteps, my inclination towards more scientific pursuits deviated me from that path.…

Evelyn and I loved to travel to Latin America which in our case was represented by Central and South America. That is, it excluded Brazil, and why? Mainly because we felt most at easy in Spanish speaking America, although Evelyn could have navigated the Portuguese language. We gravitated towards two South American destinations: Ecuador and…

1. My Early Childhood Years My father, Erich Lilienfeld, was born in 1905 in the small town of Merzig in the Saarland region of Germany, not far from the French border. My mother, Gerda Anker, was born in 1906 in Berlin, Germany. They married in 1931. My paternal grandmother, Julia Berl, was an opera singer…