Christine Maria Felicitas von Hayek[3] (sister) August von Hayek (grandfather)
Scientific career
Fields
microbiologist
Laurence Joseph Hayek
(15 July 1934 – 15 July 2004), a.k.a.Larry Hayek, was an Austrian-born English microbiologist.[4] He was the son of the economist and political philosopher Friedrich August Hayek (1899–1992).[5]
Life
Born Lorenz Josef Heinrich Erich von Hayek on 15 July 1934 in Vienna, Austria. He was brought up in Britain, where his father worked at the London School of Economics, and was naturalized, together with his sister, on 18 July 1938.[6] During the war the LSE was evacuated to Cambridge, and Hayek was found a place at King's College School, with the help of John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), his father's friend and fellow economist.[5]
Laurence retired in 1999 yet spent much of his remaining years taking locums in other hospitals. He spent a good deal of his time promoting his father's work. He and Esca were keen campanologists.[5]
Hayek died unexpectedly in 2004 in Dartington, Devon on the morning of his 70th birthday with his family with him.
The Commanding Heights: Episode One: The Battle of Ideas (Television Production). PBS. 2002. Event occurs at 6:34 from the beginning of the chapter 12). OCLC50427119. LAURENCE HAYEK, Hayek's Son: The world was very much a socialist world. His ideas were not fashionable. Nobody seemed to listen to him. Nobody seemed to agree with him. He was alone.
The Commanding Heights: Episode One: The Battle of Ideas (Television Production). PBS. 2002. Event occurs at 3:50 from the beginning of the chapter 15). OCLC50427119. LAURENCE HAYEK, Hayek's Son: Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister on the day of my father's birthday, so he sent her this telegram from Freiburg: "Thank you for the best present to my 80th birthday that anyone could have given me." A few days later she wrote back from 10 Downing Street: "Dear Professor Hayek, I am very proud to have learned so much from you over the past few years. I am determined that we should succeed. If we do so, your contribution to our ultimate victory will have been immense. Yours sincerely, Margaret Thatcher."