Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
- Paul D. Boyer
Mountain, Top, Life-Long, Hikes
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.
- Paul D. Boyer
Experience, Diamonds, While, Yield
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.
- Paul D. Boyer
Heat, Solutions, Chain, Remarkably
I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
- Paul D. Boyer
Government, Student, Teams, Senior
The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
- Paul D. Boyer
World, Made, Geographical, Happenings
During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
- Paul D. Boyer
Minnesota, Early Years, Seminar
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.
- Paul D. Boyer
Chemistry, Wisconsin, Marked, Hardly
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
- Paul D. Boyer
Beauty, Need, Accurate, Wing
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
- Paul D. Boyer
Effective, Treatment, Concentrated
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.
- Paul D. Boyer
University, Assistant, Which, 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.
- Paul D. Boyer
Car, Southern, Primitive, Trips
Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.
- Paul D. Boyer
Death, Studying, Been, Accomplishments
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.
- Paul D. Boyer
Losing, Basic Research, Our, Family Members
The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
- Paul D. Boyer
Nutrition, Environment, Excitement
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.
- Paul D. Boyer
College, Enough, Teams, Gained
The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
- Paul D. Boyer
Young, University, Campus, Tuition
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
- Paul D. Boyer
Love, More, Applied, Logical
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
- Paul D. Boyer
Civility, Bad, Back, Banished
An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
- Paul D. Boyer
Career, Unexpected, Been, Benefit
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
- Paul D. Boyer
Lucky, Limited, Based, Tendency
It was always assumed that I would go to college.
- Paul D. Boyer
College, Always, Would, Assumed
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