The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. – Peter Agre
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. – Peter Agre
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this. – Peter Agre
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Moms cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. – Peter Agre