The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
From Paul D. Boyer
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
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.
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.
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.
During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
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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