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In an interview with Professor Eric Von Hippel he stated that his favorite aspect of his job was doing research, teaching and specifically, working with doctoral students. His own favorite teacher was a high school biology teacher, "a wonderful guy," Von Hippel describes, and who showed him incredible new things in a new light. His idol is Jean Piaget who was a psychologist and a philosopher that focused on learning about the stages of kids lives from observations.
In this leisure time when he's not inventing something, he enjoys talking to people and spending time with his children. His family includes his wife Jessie who is an editor of scholarly books and journal articles and a tennis player, a daughter Christiana who is a Masters in Public Health student at Indiana University and first recipient of the Ryan White Legacy Scholarship for her work in promoting sexual health, and a son Eric James who studies the Japanese language and culture on his own. The family has a cockatiel named Merlin. When Eric Von Hippel's daughter was young, he often made up cat-related bedtime stories because cats were her favorite animal. When Christiana was 14 and he was traveling with her they took the opportunity to write these stories down and the stories are entitled "Christiana in Catlandia."
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