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Daniel Nathans
American
Scientist
About the author
My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#Public
#Years
#Age
#Education
#School
#Job
#Summer
#Months
#Schools
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#Washington
#School
#Choice
#Students
#University
#Medical
Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#Life
#World
#Science
#Research
#Order
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#Strength
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#Years
#World
#Freedom
#Opportunity
#Parents
#states
#United
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#First
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#Career
#Friends
As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#Life
#Fortune
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#Will
#Medical
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#People
#Earth
#Value
I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.
Daniel Nathans,
American
Scientist
#Research