Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: My first memory about proteins goes back to the spring of 1918, during the First World War, when I was a student in a class on camp cookery given by the Home Economics Department of Oregon Agricultural College as a contribution to the war effort.Students in the class were, like me, receiving some military training in the Reserve Officers Training Corps.I remember making a loaf of bread and also learning something about the macronutrients, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, but nothing about vitamins-it was too soon after the discovery of vitamins for them to get mentioned in the course.I continued my studies, except for one year, 1919-1920, during which I was a full-time instructor, teaching quantitative analysis.I received my degree of Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in June 1922, and in September 1922 began my graduate work at the California Institute of Technology.I soon started research on the determination of the structure of crystals by the X-ray diffraction method, supervised
Source: Protein Science
Author: Linus Pauling
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1972733795