“The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. 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.” PeopleNeedsCausesUnderstandingDecisionIssuesFundamentalsMedicineClimateFoolishChemicalsPenaltiesEfficacyToxicityIlliteracy Author:Peter Agre
“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.” FirstsChildrenInterestTeacherIgnoranceScientistDefense Author:Peter Agre
“One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.” WayWantMotivationStudyBloodRedCellsSpecialistsMalariaBlood Cells Author:Peter Agre
“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.” YearsSchoolYoungLanguageTeacherGroupsJourneyTravelHigh SchoolFollowingRussiaFunny TravelJuniorsCampingJunior YearHigh School JuniorJunior Year Of High School Author:Peter Agre
“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.” BoysWonderfulBrotherMomMembersSummerLocalsMy BrotherFarmsCousinDairyWisconsinBoy ScoutWisconsin Weather Author:Peter Agre
“We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.” DadDinnerChristmasNorwegiansChristmas Dinner Author:Peter Agre
“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.” WayBodyMovingProcessWaterCellsOrganizedTissues Author:Peter Agre
“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.” StatesUnitedHalfMillionsUnited StatesBillsWesternMilesOpeningTerritorySquaresAbrahamSettlementOne HalfGdpHomesteadingHomestead Act Author:Peter Agre
“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.” HonorDiscoveryFundamentalsRemarkablePrizeAdvancementNobelUsefulnessNobel PrizeHomestead Act Author:Peter Agre
“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.” ProblemFeltGoalStudyTrainingResearchScientistIndependentMedicineInternalsLaboratoryBenchesClinicalsResidency Author:Peter Agre
“Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.” TwoWifeEventsResearchCommitmentMeetingsMaryDefiningMy FutureHopkinsMedical ResearchBiomedicalHomestead ActFuture Wife Author:Peter Agre
“The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.” YoungEnergyScientistEnthusiasmCellsDepartmentRemarkableBiologyTomsEngagingHopkinsEnergy And Enthusiasm Author:Peter Agre
“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.” WorldLongProblemCareersColdDiseaseWinterFascinationExoticMinnesotaTropicalHealth ProblemsWorld HealthExotic Places Author:Peter Agre
“I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.” PeopleFatherFourGenerationsGrewGrew UpBuriedMinnesotaFour Generations Author:Peter Agre
“Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.” FeelsMadeSchoolTeacherInferiorsPublic SchoolSchool Teachers Author:Peter Agre
“So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.” ThinkingYoungAdviceScientist Author:Peter Agre
“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.” ImportantCollegeDadMembersSaintActiveSatChemistryProfessorsChemicalsCommitteesTextbooksOxfordMinnesotaOlaf Author:Peter Agre
“Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.” AgeMotherLostSupportFarmsGrandfatherMy GrandfatherAssistantsMaids Author:Peter Agre
“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.” SchoolSouthMedicalAsiaLaboratoryEpidemicsSweepingCholeraMedical SchoolSoutheast AsiaSouth AsiaEast AsiaMedical Education Author:Peter Agre
