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

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

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.

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

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

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.