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It was always assumed that I would go to college.
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Assumed
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An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
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Benefits
Biochemistry
Careers
Unexpected
Benefit
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During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
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Enzymes
Evening
Minnesota
Years
Early Years
Seminar
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The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
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Excitement
Metabolism
Nutrition
Vitamins
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Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
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Religion
Claims
Religious
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I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
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Choices
Information
Lucky
Tendency
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Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
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Hiking
Inviting
Long
Mountain
Summit
Hikes
Instilled
Life Long
Peak
Urge
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I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
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Government
Senior
Team
Debating
Served
Teams
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The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
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Happenings
Isolation
Geographical
Remote
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The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
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Home
Block
Byu
Campus
Tuition
University
Blocks
Minimal
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I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
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Civility
Remember
Temper
Banished
Hall
Returned
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Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
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Blood
Shock
Treatment
Battlefield
Concentrated
Effective
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It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.
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Inspirational
Basketball
Size
Team
Welcome
Gained
Skill
Teams
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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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Compassion
Discipline
Example
Father
Honesty
Logical
Reasoning
Applied
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The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
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Experience
Coal
Effort
Research
Yield
Looking
Favorite
Diamonds
Efforts
Reminds
Saying
While
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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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Family
Car
Adventure
Driving
National Parks
Parks
Primitive
Real
Southern
Utah
Yellowstone
Now
Adventures
National
Roads
Trips
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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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Appreciation
Smile
Accurate
Analysis
Measurement
Needs
Qualitative
Wings
John
Painstaking
Quantitative
Wing
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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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Biochemistry
Chemistry
Department
Professors
Stanford
Two
University
Visible
Wisconsin
Consisting
Hardly
Marked
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The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.
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Accepted
Biochemistry
Department
Minnesota
Stanford
University
Assistant
Completed
Essentially
Project
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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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Biochemistry
Fulfilled
Accomplishments
Applied
Basic
Remain
Studying
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This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions.
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Discovery
Fatty
Heat
Solutions
Chain
Concentrated
Led
Remarkably
Stabilize
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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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Agony
Basic Research
Cancer
Family Members
Function
Grandchildren
Living Organisms
Losing
Members
Organisms
Research
Basic
Likely
Spared
Types
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