Howard temman was the second of three sons of a lawyer and an activist from philadelphia. He became obsessed by the chicken tumor that peyton rouse had discovered 50 years earlier, now known as rouse sarcomb of irus. One of his former graduate students says she could barely keep up with him. Temman donated his barmisfa money to a refugee camp. Years later, when he visited the soviet union, he smuggled in hebrew prayer books.