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Ronald Breslow

Ronald Charles David Breslow was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He was University Professor at Columbia University, where he was based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he had also been on the faculty of its Department of Chemical Engineering. He had taught at Columbia since 1956 and was a former chair of the university's chemistry department.

If you have a universe that was just the mirror image of the one we know about, then in fact, presumably it would have right-handed amino acids. That's why I'm only half kidding when I say there is a guy on the other side of the universe with his heart on the right hand side.
If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff. — © Ronald Breslow
If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff.
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