How I became a biochemist.
How I became a biochemist.
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我如何成为一名生物化学家。
DOI：
10.1080/15216540213829
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发表时间：
2002
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影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Stadtman,EarlR
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作者：
Stadtman,EarlR
我早年的大部分教育是在大萧条时期(1930-1937年)在加利福尼亚州的圣贝纳迪诺接受的。在这段时间里，我花了很多空闲时间做杂工，做院子里的活，为各种各样的人修剪草坪。在从事这些活动时，我的一些雇主经常问我，你知道我应该在我的土壤里加什么肥料才能让植物生长得更好吗？基于这一经历，我决定，如果我去一所大学学习如何分析土壤，我将能够建立一个土壤测试实验室，并以为感兴趣的人分析土壤为生。因此，在我哥哥和姐姐的经济帮助下，在加州大学伯克利分校昆虫学系的一份国家青年管理局(NYA)清洗玻璃器皿的工作中，我得以进入该大学并获得土壤科学学士学位。不幸的是，这没有达到我的期望，我与博德曼博士的一次对话最好地解释了这一点，博德曼博士是我课程中土壤物理课程的教授。博德曼博士问我是否认为我在主修土壤科学的过程中学到了什么。我的回答是：“是的。虽然我主修土壤学是为了谋生，为客户分析土壤样本，以此作为确定应该在他们的土壤中添加什么肥料以使他们的植物生长得更好的手段，但我学到的是，你不能这样做。我永远不会忘记他的回答：“好吧，斯塔特曼，如果你已经学到了这一点，那么你在这里的时间就没有浪费。”尽管如此，我主修土壤科学的经历证明是我作为一名生物化学家发展的重要一步。当时，伯克利大学土壤科学专业的必修课涵盖的科学学科种类比其他任何专业都多。无机化学/有机化学、物理学、细菌学、生物化学、生理学、胶体化学的基础课程，植物生物化学、土壤物理和化学的实验室课程。
Most of my earlier education was obtained in San Bernardino, California, during the Depression years (1930–1937). During this period I spent much of my free time as a handyman, doing yard work, and mowing lawns for various people. While engaged in these activities, I was often asked by some of my employers,“Do you know what fertilizers I should add to my soil to make plants grow better?” Based on this experience, I decided that, if I went to a university and learned how to analyze soil, I would be able to set up a soil testing laboratory and make a living analyzing soil for interested parties. Thus, with the financial help of my brother and sister and a National Youth Administration (NYA) job washing glassware in the Entomology Department of the University of California at Berkeley, I was able to attend the University and obtain a BS degree in soil science. Unfortunately, this did not live up to my expectations, as best explained by a conversation I had with Dr. Bodman, who was the professor of the course in soil physics that was part of my curriculum. Dr. Bodman asked if I thought I had learned anything during my major in soil science. My reply was:“Yes. Although I had majored in soil science in order to make a living by analyzing soil samples for customers as a means of determining what fertilizers should be added to their soil to make their plants grow better, what I had learned was you cannot do that.” I shall never forget his reply:“Well, Stadtman, if you have learned that, then your time here has not been wasted.” Even so, my experience as a soil science major proved to be an important step in my development as a biochemist. At that time, the required courses for a major in soil science at Berkeley covered a greater variety of scientific disciplines than any other major. Basic courses in inorganic/organic chemistry, physics, bacteriology, biochemistry, physiology, colloidal chemistry, and laboratory courses in plant biochemistry, soil physics, and mi-