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Paul D. Boyer

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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


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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


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It was always assumed that I would go to college.


— Paul D. Boyer


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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


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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


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The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.


— Paul D. Boyer


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The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.


— Paul D. Boyer


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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


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The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.


— Paul D. Boyer


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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


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About Paul D. Boyer






Did you know about Paul D. Boyer?

In 1955 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and worked with Professor Hugo Theorell on the mechanism of alcohol dehydrogenase. & P. "Energy Capture and Use in Plants and Bacteria.

Walker; the remainder of the Prize in that year was awarded to Danish chemist Jens Christian Skou for his discovery of the Na+/K+-ATPase. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" (ATP synthase) with John E. Paul Delos Boyer (born July 31 1918) is an American biochemist analytical chemist and a professor of chemistry at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

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