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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar. "

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

" I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information. "

" 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. "

" It was always assumed that I would go to college. "

" Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. "

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