First Love

I decided to go with the usual half-truth reserved for straight people. "I am an art historian turned biologist. I went to Nepal to study Tibetan but found that I am no linguist when it comes to Asian languages. I have returned to biology, my first love. Specifically,... 

Reacquainted with Anne Walworth (nee Young), his first love... 

Woehler, too, had forsaken his first love almost in its infancy. Organic chemistry nowadays almost drives me mad, he complained. To me it appears like a primeval tropical forest full of the most remarkable things, a dreadful endless jungle into which one does not dare enter, for there seems no way out. He went to his minerals again and to the study of metals. In Sweden he had watched the master Berzelius at work on his researches of silicon, selenium and zirconium—three new elements. Woehler had learned much during his short stay and, a year before his immortal synthesis of urea, had already accomplished a research of the first order—the isolation of the... 

Dr. Jeanes last published paper, Immunological and Related Interactions with Dextrans Reviewed in Terms of Improved Structural Information, was published in 1986 (Molecular Immunology, 23, 999-1028), 10 years after her official retirement and only 9 years before her death. It demonstrates the dedication this lovely woman had for her first love— dextran. 

But laboratory work would never be his first love. It was difficult for Pauling to slow his restless mind and find the patience needed for meticulous, repeated experiments. He loved coming up with new ideas and would most often, in later years, let someone else gather the experimental proof. 

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ... 

Jot a few notes describing your initial reactions to the story s main idea(s) or major theme(s). (If it s helpful, think of the story in terms of its about-ness. What do you as reader think this story is about Loss of innocence The bitterness of revenge The power of sympathy Tragic lack of communication The wonder of first love ) In other words, what comments or observations does this story make about the human condition ... 

Heartbeats and Other Stories by Peter D. Sieruta Stories about growing up, with friends, siblings, and first loves. 

R. nember the content of this memory is not important (If the content seems to be too important choose another memory. For example if he chooses the girl that just dumped him yesterday, he may have a hard time visualizing her picture without feeling the pain of the breakup. Choose his first love, or someone he really felt attracted to but never actually went out with.)... 

Work in the laboratory was Dr. Thompson s first love, but he had an excellent command of the literature of carbohydrate chemistry, together with a flair for direct, concise scientific writing, which he used when he could be induced to leave the laboratory. With M. L. Wolfrom, he wrote a number of book chapters, notably those on esters and glycosides in the second edition of Pigman s book. His contributions to the series Methods in Carbohydrate Chemistry were particularly prolific. Most of these procedures were developed from his own laboratory work, and were written shortly before his death. 

This idea began to change in 1828 when a twenty-seven-year-old German physician, whose first love was chemistry, synthesized the organic molecule urea from inorganic starting materials. This man was Friedrich Wohler, the "father of organic chemistry."... 

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