About the Author

Robert L. Switzer is Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author or co-author of 138 original scientific research articles, reviews, and book chapters, along with the textbook Experimental Biochemistry and the memoir A Family Farm: Life on an Illinois Dairy Farm. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.