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Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
Peter Agre / Physician
Dependent
Form
Water
Wells
Forms
Life Forms
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Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.
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Labs
Secret
Study
Lab
Studies
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Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.
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Natural Selection
Selection
Phrase
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To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.
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Senate
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I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
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Buried
Father
Four
Generations
Minnesota
People
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For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science.
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Discovery
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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
Peter Agre / Physician
Christmas
Smile
Dad
Bible
Dinner
Norwegians
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So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
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Advice
Scientist
Thinking
Critically
Scientists
Unnecessarily
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Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
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Teacher
Made
Public School
School
School Teachers
Teachers
Inferior
Ridiculed
Undeserved
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Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
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Biomedical
Commitment
Defining
Events
Hopkins
Mary
Research
Two
Wife
Life Future Me
Introduced
Meeting
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I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.
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Bible
Beliefs
Statement
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In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.
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Available
Colleagues
Insight
Most Powerful
Resources
Solve
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In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
Peter Agre / Physician
Abraham
Gdp
Half
Miles
One Half
Opening
Settlement
Squares
Territory
Western
Bill
Homestead
Lincoln
Million
Signed
Square
Square Miles
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Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.
Peter Agre / Physician
Teacher
Travel
Camping
Following
Junior Year
Russia
School
Junior
Led
Roosevelt
Trip
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My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.
Peter Agre / Physician
Mom
Boy Scout
Brother
Cousin
Dairy
Farms
Members
Summer
Wisconsin
Wonderful
Boy
Cousins
Jim
Local
Owned
Scout
Spent
Summers
Troop
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The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
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Biology
Cells
Department
Energy
Engaging
Enthusiasm
Hopkins
Remarkable
Scientist
Founded
Cell
Directed
Tom
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There are over 50 brilliant scientists working at my lab, and being sensitive to their needs is among the top skill sets that scientists like me have to learn.
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Brilliant
Sensitive
Lab
Scientists
Sets
Skill
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It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
Peter Agre / Physician
Advancement
Discovery
Honor
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Remarkable
Usefulness
Discoveries
Fundamental
Receive
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The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
Peter Agre / Physician
Health
Careers
Cold
Exotic
Fascination
Health Problems
Long
Minnesota
Tropical
Winter
World Me Long
Aspired
Career
Diseases
Instilled
Places
Problems
Toward
Winters
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Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.
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Asia
Cholera
Epidemics
Laboratory
Medical School
School
South Asia
Epidemic
Joined
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Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
Peter Agre / Physician
Teacher
Children
Ignorance
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My wife and I have four children, and none of them are in lab science, so clearly I returned home at night and presented a fairly unattractive example of a scientific life.
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Unattractive
Fairly
Lab
Presented
Returned
Scientific
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Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.
Peter Agre / Physician
Depression
Grandfather
Mother
Support
Assistant
Farm
Herself
Maid
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Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They're in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They're better educated than other parts of the country.
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Educated
Generous
Good People
Minnesota
Good Better People
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While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at.
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Enormous
Inner Peace
Peace Of Mind
Scientist
Life Family Peace
Depending
Influenced
Inner
Lab
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One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.
Peter Agre / Physician
Blood
Cells
Malaria
Motivation
Work Science Your
Work Science Way
Discover
Motivations
Specialist
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My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
Peter Agre / Physician
Goal
Independent
Laboratory
Medicine
Research
Scientist
Training
Bench
Clinical
Develop
Internal
Studying
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Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.
Peter Agre / Physician
Biology
Controversy
Moved
Protein
Water
Identified
Lab
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Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels.
Peter Agre / Physician
Cells
Moving
Organized
Water
Cell
Channels
Occurs
Primarily
Rapidly
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There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.
Peter Agre / Physician
Approach
Balance
Be Careful
Careful
Conservative
Neutral
Deliver
Far Right
Liberal
Promising
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Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.
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Boundaries
Chemistry
Following
Formal
Limits
Medicine
Physics
Renaissance
Separating
Blurred
Curiosities
Scientists
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Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
Peter Agre / Physician
Dad
Active
College
Minnesota
Oxford
Saint
Chemical
Committee
Member
Phenomenally
Professor
Textbook
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Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants are also primarily water. The organization of water within biological compartments is fundamental to life, and the aquaporins serve as the plumbing systems for cells.
Peter Agre / Physician
Cells
Organization
Plumbing
Biological
Bodies
Commonly
Fundamental
Plants
Primarily
Regarded
Solvent
Systems
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The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.
Peter Agre / Physician
Issues
Medicine
People
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Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.
Peter Agre / Physician
Chemistry
Defined
Discipline
Fields
Medicine
Nobel
Physics
Scientific Research
Walks
Life Success Time
Endowed
Narrowly
Prizes
Requisite
Scientific
Trained
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