Edward Slater

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1972

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Edward Slater in 1972, University of Amsterdam

"Upon graduation from The Johns Hopkins University in 1953, I went to Europe for postdoctoral studies. My first year was with Henry McIlwain, at the Maudsley Hospital, of the University of London. My second year was with E.C. Slater, first at Cambridge University and then at the University of Amsterdam. He [Slater] was an excellent biochemist and I, really, I went there to learn the techniques of biochemistry. He was studying what we call oxidative phosphorylation, the process by which mitochondria make ATP [adenosine triphosphate], which is the universal energy carrier for cells, and he was studying that process, how molecules metabolized glucose to CO2 and water with the generation of ATP, which is the energy unit of the cell. So, I worked on that program with him." - Paul Greengard, Oral History