In my early childhood, my parents gave me to my maternal grandparents for a "visit" that extended over a period of nine years. I seemed to be a fairly ordinary student in primary grades, and had to take a remedial general science class upon entering high school, my first exposure to science. It was the teacher of that class, Mr. Auer, who told me that I had scored amazingly high on a science aptitude test given to all freshmen. The people who administered the testing were convinced that I must have cheated somehow. Mr. Auer suggested that I might want to consider a career in science if I liked it. I loved it, and I did. This autobiographical article recounts my changing interests as I became aware of new fields of science during my education and the start of my career. Out of basic studies of a microbe that causes plant cancer, we developed a method to engineer new and useful genes into crop plants.

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我的秘密生活

在我童年的早期，我的父母把我交给了我的外祖父母，进行了长达九年的“访问”。我在小学时似乎是一个相当普通的学生，进入高中时不得不参加一个补习的普通科学课，这是我第一次接触科学。是那个班的老师奥尔先生告诉我，我在所有新生的科学能力测试中取得了惊人的高分。进行测试的人确信我一定是作弊了。Auer 先生建议，如果我喜欢，我可能会考虑从事科学职业。我喜欢它，我做到了。这篇自传式文章讲述了我在接受教育和职业生涯开始时意识到新的科学领域时我不断变化的兴趣。在对导致植物癌症的微生物的基础研究中，