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• The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.

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• First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

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• At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

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• As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

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• And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

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Daniel Nathans (11)

Birth:	30th October, 1928
Death:	16th November, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Scientist

About

Daniel Nathans was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He was an American microbiologist. Along with Werner Arber and Hamilton Smith, Nathans received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978 for the discovery of restriction enzymes. He received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Delaware in 1950. He received his M.D. degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1954.

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