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Paul D Boyer
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...rd, taught Boyer logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline.
Boyer’s mother died in 1933-- just weeks before Boyer’s fifteenth birthday. Discoveries about the adrenal hormones, that could have saved her life, came too late. According to Boyer:
“I am told that I had a bad temper…. Perhaps this temper was later sublimated into drive and tenacity, traits that may have come in part from my mother. Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry” (Boyer). Fifteen years after his mother’s death, Boyer’s father remarried.
Boyer attended school at Parker Elementary School. Students who learned more easily were allowed to skip a grade, and he entered Farrer Junior High at a younger age than most of his classmates. Boyer then went on to graduate at 16. From there, he then went on to attend Brigham Young University (BYU). The BYU campus was just a few blocks from his home and tuition was minimal. It was a small college of about 4,000 students.
As his senior year came along, several career paths were considered: employment as a chemist in the mining industry, a training program in hotel management, the study of osteopathic or conventional medicine, or some type of graduate training. Little information was available about the latter possibility; but a few chemistry majors from BYU had gone on to graduate school. A notice was posted of a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Scholarship for graduate studies. Boyer’s application was ...
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