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" An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel. "
Unexpected
Been
Travel
" A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. "
Need
Me
Appreciation
" Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock. "
Effective
Blood
Battlefield
" During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar. "
Evening
Early
Minnesota
" 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. "
Car
Now
Family
" 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. "
Studying
More
Sense
" I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. "
Bad
Civility
Back
" 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. "
Society
Support
Family
" I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information. "
Information
Lucky
Right
" 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. "
Two
Contrast
University
" I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president. "
Senior
Student
Class
" It was always assumed that I would go to college. "
Go
Assumed
Always
" 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. "
School
Welcome
High School
" More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. "
Compassion
Love
Me
" Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. "
Top
Summit
Peak
" The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal. "
Home
Just
Tuition
" The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment. "
Excitement
Environment
Nutrition
" 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. "
Experience
Saying
Looking
" The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote. "
Problems
World
Isolation
" 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. "
War
Good
Project
" 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. "
Long
Chain
Discovery
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