THEY were an unlikely pair: one was the youngest person ever to win a Nobel prize, the other a college dropout. Alexis Carrel, a stocky French surgeon, headed up a lab at the renowned Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York; Charles Lindbergh, a tall American, had flunked out of the University of Wisconsin.
By the time they met, each was a hero. Carrel had been awarded the Nobel prize in medicine for his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs. Lindbergh had made the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic.
Despite all…
