Accomplishments Quote by Paul D. Boyer

When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always…

— John Travolta

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays…

— Tracy K. Smith

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received…

— John Pople

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of…

— Jonas Salk

I did a PhD in molecular bio-physics.

— Gail Bradbrook

When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was…

— John Dickerson

I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had come to…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

My mom, she was, she studied chemistry. And later on she changed and majored, she changed later in her career, in her life and…

— Alfonso Cuaron

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and…

— Frederick Sanger

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

— Peter Agre

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

— William Standish Knowles