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.
Success
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It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
Education
My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
Success
So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
Success
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 Roosevelt.
Education
Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.
Wisdom
Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
Life
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
Education
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
Wisdom
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.
Success
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
Hope
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
Wisdom
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.
Success
In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.
Education
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.
Education
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 occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels.
Wisdom
Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
Education
While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at.
Success
I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
Wisdom
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
Wisdom
For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science.
Education
I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.
Wisdom
Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.
Wisdom
To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.
Education
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