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 excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

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.

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.

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.

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.