Alter | 77 Jahre |
Beruf | Chemiker, Hochschullehrer |
Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 30. Januar 1949 |
Geburtsort | Northfield, Minnesota, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Peter Courtland Agre ist ein US-amerikanischer Mediziner und Molekularbiologe sowie Nobelpreisträger für Chemie. |
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 to work on this.
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
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 health problems.
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 troop.
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 Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.