Friedman autobiography examples

My laboratory identified leptin, a hormone that is produced by fat tissue. Leptin acts on the brain to modulate food intake and functions as an afferent signal in a feedback loop that regulates weight.

My route to this hormone is filled with a number of chance events and turns of fate that were in no way predictable at the time that I started my career.

I grew up in the suburbs of New York City in a village where children had enormous freedom.

Friedman autobiography examples

I recall from an early age riding my bicycle everywhere without my parents, or anyone else for that matter, knowing my whereabouts. My father was a radiologist and my mother was a teacher. No one in my family or community had pursued an academic career and at the time I was completely unaware of the possibility that one could make a career in science.

In my family, the highest level of achievement was to become a doctor and, despite my earliest dreams of a career as a professional athlete (made unlikely by