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- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
- Boy Scout
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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.
- Language
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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.
- Long
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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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
- Problems
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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.
- Energy
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The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
- Had
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Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.
- Process
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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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.
- Four
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They're in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They're better educated than other parts of the country.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020