How my interest in proteins developed

Abstract

My first memory about proteins goes back to the spring of 1918, during the First World War, when I was a student in a class on camp cookery given by the Home Economics Department of Oregon Agricultural College as a contribution to the war effort.Students in the class were, like me, receiving some military training in the Reserve Officers Training Corps.I remember making a loaf of bread and also learning something about the macronutrients, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, but nothing about vitamins-it was too soon after the discovery of vitamins for them to get mentioned in the course.I continued my studies, except for one year, 1919-1920, during which I was a full-time instructor, teaching quantitative analysis.I received my degree of Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in June 1922, and in September 1922 began my graduate work at the California Institute of Technology.I soon started research on the determination of the structure of crystals by the X-ray diffraction method, supervised by Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson, who was the first recipient of a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (1 920).He was then a National Research Council Fellow, but he later became a member of the staff (Professor of physical chemistry).My interest at that time was in minerals, in-"

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