By Then, I Was Making The Slow

With Time, Many Of The Facts I Learned Were Forgotten But I Never Lost The Excitement Of Discovery.

But The Prospects Of Designing Chemical Plants For Industrial Scale Chemical Processes Seemed Far Less Interesting Than The Chemical Events That Occur In Biological Systems.

Moreover, The Concern Of Some That Moving Dna Among Species Would Breach Customary Breeding Barriers And Have Profound Effects On Natural Evolutionary Processes Has Substantially Disappeared As The Science Revealed That Such Exchanges Occur In Nature.

But I Felt It Necessary To Be Part Of The War Effort And I Enlisted In The Navy To Be A Flyer.

That Work Led To The Emergence Of The Recombinant Dna Technology Thereby Providing A Major Tool For Analyzing Mammalian Gene Structure And Function And Formed The Basis For Me Receiving The 1980 Nobel Prize In Chemistry.