Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
quote by Paul D. Boyer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Paul D. Boyer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
quote by Paul D. Boyer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Paul D. Boyer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Paul D. Boyer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
quote by Paul D. Boyer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Paul D. Boyer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Paul D. Boyer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Paul D. Boyer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Paul D. Boyer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!