We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at.

In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.

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.

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.