This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1996-08-01 edition. Excerpt: ...competition being from China was a disadvantage, but C. H. found an opportunity to turn it to advantage by teaching Chinese at the Chung-Mei Home for boys, about 5 miles from campus. To do this $30-per-month job C. H. invested in a jalopy and learned to drive. He took to the streets after a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1996-08-01 edition. Excerpt: ...competition being from China was a disadvantage, but C. H. found an opportunity to turn it to advantage by teaching Chinese at the Chung-Mei Home for boys, about 5 miles from campus. To do this $30-per-month job C. H. invested in a jalopy and learned to drive. He took to the streets after a onehour driving lesson with characteristic determination and concentration, but with uncharacteristic fear. Fortunately, he did survive and by 1938 had earned a Ph.D. studying chemical kinetics with Thomas Dale Stewart. Academic and industrial positions were extremely scarce in 1938 for chemists with fresh Ph.D. degrees, and Li felt himself very lucky to secure a position, even though it was an unusual one. It was an opening on the Berkeley campus for a chemist in the Institute for Experimental Biology, headed by Herbert Evans, a professor of anatomy and a preeminent endocrinologist. This was a high risk opportunity because it had almost nothing to do with the kind of chemistry for which C. H. had been trained. The members of the institute used various biological approaches to study endocrinology of the pituitary gland. Evans's vision of a chemical approach to endocrinology was novel, so much so that the nature of such chemistry was unclear at Berkeley and even elsewhere. As foreign as this sort of research was, Li poured himself into it wholeheartedly, grateful for the opportunity. The hormones to be studied were proteins, and protein chemistry was in its infancy. The state of the art was crystallization, centrifugation, and moving-boundary electrophoresis. Amino acid analysis, amino acid sequencing, and X-ray crystallography were only dreams, and chro-matography, gel electrophoresis, and circular dichroism were not even dreamt. To make matters...
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Government Printing Office, 1924. Very good., Hardcover, Quarto, 196. Original dark brown cloth. 196 pages. Text clean. Light cover wear. Gilt spine title. B&w portraits. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences Volume XVII. Mayo-Smith, Scudder, Brush, Williston, Van Hise, Gould, Bowditch. Packed and shipped with care.