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The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

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An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

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Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

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I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

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A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

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In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

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The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.

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More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

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If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

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Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: July 31st, 1918

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