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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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