Fortunately, the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison was outstanding and far ahead of most others in the country.
Fortunately, the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison was outstanding and far ahead of most others in the country.
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.
Minnesota has generally competent and honest public officials, good support of the schools and cultural amenities, and an excellent state university.
A different type of education came when as a member of a medical corps in the National Guard I spent several weeks in a military camp in California.
It was always assumed that I would go to college.
My Ph.D. degree was granted in the spring of 1943, the nation was at war, and I headed for a war project at Stanford University.
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.
In 1956 I accepted a Hill Foundation Professorship and moved to the medical school campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
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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