Erskine

Erskine is a doctor by training, a soft-spoken medical researcher whose career has run through laboratories rather than clinics, in research he rarely discusses outside them. In person he is gentle, courteous, and melancholy around the edges, a listener more than a talker, with the careful hands and careful sentences of a man used to work that punishes imprecision. He is a father, and he speaks of his daughter with tenderness. Among colleagues he carries the particular gravity of someone who takes ideas seriously enough to be burdened by them.