Peter Agre
Peter Agre’s Discovery
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Upon deciding a topic for an ideal Nobel laureate, I had to meet two criteria I decided for myself. Aside from the topic having to be science related, I decided that the laureate could not be well know, such as Watson or Einstein, and also it should be a science topic that I have found the most intriguing since entering college which happens to be the human body. Even with such a broad topic as the human body I came across a laureate that peaked my interest. A 2003 Nobel Science Laureate, Peter Agre and his discovery of the aquaporin water channels. This essay will be dipping a bit into whom Peter Agre is and his discovery but the main portion of this essay will be what he discovered, namely the aquaporin water channels, and its’ uses. These uses have been both scientifically and medically as this water channels occur naturally through our bodies.
Before we dive into this amazing discovery, we must first dip into the life of the mastermind behind all this, Peter Agre. Born on January 30th 1949, with a family of 4 other siblings. In the field of biochemistry and structural chemistry, which became his pride and interest all thanks to his father whom was considered a hero to him. In his family, and pretty much any family, “receiving a Nobel Prize was like being given the Holy Grail (Agre’s Biography). Agre’s life was surrounded by chemistry so he embraced it and continued with it. Performing the 1st purification of estrogen receptors and even meeting the love of his life, and future wife while in postgraduate training. He was blessed with 4 kids through out his time and overjoyed with each one.
Around the 1990s after joining in one of his neighbor’s laboratory and conducting experiment, he discovered something unusual that most of his fellow partners could not make heads or tails of. He eventually asked John Parker, a fellow scientist from UNC, in 1991 and he described it to be the long sought
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Upon deciding a topic for an ideal Nobel laureate, I had to meet two criteria I decided for myself. Aside from the topic having to be science related, I decided that the laureate could not be well know, such as Watson or Einstein, and also it should be a science topic that I have found the most intriguing since entering college which happens to be the human body. Even with such a broad topic as the human body I came across a laureate that peaked my interest. A 2003 Nobel Science Laureate, Peter Agre and his discovery of the aquaporin water channels. This essay will be dipping a bit into whom Peter Agre is and his discovery but the main portion of this essay will be what he discovered, namely the aquaporin water channels, and its’ uses. These uses have been both scientifically and medically as this water channels occur naturally through our bodies.
Before we dive into this amazing discovery, we must first dip into the life of the mastermind behind all this, Peter Agre. Born on January 30th 1949, with a family of 4 other siblings. In the field of biochemistry and structural chemistry, which became his pride and interest all thanks to his father whom was considered a hero to him. In his family, and pretty much any family, “receiving a Nobel Prize was like being given the Holy Grail (Agre’s Biography). Agre’s life was surrounded by chemistry so he embraced it and continued with it. Performing the 1st purification of estrogen receptors and even meeting the love of his life, and future wife while in postgraduate training. He was blessed with 4 kids through out his time and overjoyed with each one.
Around the 1990s after joining in one of his neighbor’s laboratory and conducting experiment, he discovered something unusual that most of his fellow partners could not make heads or tails of. He eventually asked John Parker, a fellow scientist from UNC, in 1991 and he described it to be the long sought
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