American - Scientist | July 31, 1918 -
The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
Paul D. Boyer
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The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
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Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
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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.
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An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
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