title: From outer to inner space: traveling along a scientific career from astrochemistry to drug research.
abstract: This professional history describes my journey as a research scientist after my early training and experiences in the pre- and early post-World War II United States. My graduate training concentrated on a problem in astrochemistry: phenomena on comets. As my career developed, I felt confident enough in myself as an experimentalist to enter, and make contributions to, several different fields: structural biochemistry (via nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy), molecular immunology, pharmacology, neurochemistry, and cell biology. One emphasis is on the nature and quality of my scientific training that permitted me to do cross-disciplinary work. A second emphasis is on the technical and intellectual developments in late twentieth-century science and how, along with the changes in American society as it passed through three major wars, they influenced my life and thought.
authors.affiliation: Global Scientific Consulting LLC, Farmington, CT 06032, USA. jaglasel@home.com
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Glasel
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine / Q000266:history; D001671:Biochemistry / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009294:Narcotics / Q000266:history; D011957:Receptors, Opioid / Q000266:history; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D009294:Narcotics; D011957:Receptors, Opioid