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Ron Vale

What turned you onto science in the first place? I had a wonderful mother (a nonscientist and former actress) who frequently took me to the Natural History Museum and Science and Technology Museum in the Los Angeles area as a young child. I loved these museums and worked at the latter as a high school student; nothing glorious — setting up displays and working cash registers, but I got to hang ...

W. S. C. Copeman, (1900–1970)

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Wylie Vale: neuroendocrine master.

W ylie Vale, professor and head of the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology at The Salk Institute, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and leader in the field of neuroendocrinology, passed away in his sleep on January 3, 2012 while vacationing in Hawaii. He was 70 years old and is survived by his wife Betty, his daughters Elizabeth and Susannah, his granddaughter Celeste,...

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