Occupation: Physician Birth: January 30, 1949
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible..
Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret..
My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate reside….
So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily..
I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there..
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthu….
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical….
Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosev….
Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occur….
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundam….
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary..
Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was spark….
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout t….
Well, all life forms are dependent upon water..
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory t….
The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack of s….
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved..
One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go….
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world he….
Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; sh….
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlem….