Editing Martin Kamen (section)

==Early life and education==
Kamen was born on August 27, 1913, in [[Toronto]], the son of Russian [[Jew]]ish immigrants.<ref name="AR1986">{{cite journal |last1=Kamen |first1=Martin D. |title=A cupful of luck, a pinch of sagacity |journal=Annual Review of Biochemistry |date=June 1986 |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=1–35 |doi=10.1146/annurev.bi.55.070186.000245 |pmid=3090931 |language=en |issn=0066-4154|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Maugh">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-sep-06-me-kamenobit6-story.html|title=Martin D. Kamen, 89; Scientist Who Discovered the Element Carbon-14|last=Maugh|first= Thomas H|date=September 6, 2002|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> He grew up in [[Chicago]]. Interested in classical music, he initially entered the [[University of Chicago]] as a music student before changing his major from music to chemistry. Although he gave up music as a career, Kamen continued to play the [[viola]] at a high professional level during the rest of his life.<ref name="Arnold"/> 

Kamen received a [[bachelor's degree]] in [[chemistry]] from the University of Chicago in 1933. In 1936, Kamen earned a PhD in [[physical chemistry]] from the same university after working with [[William D. Harkins]] on "Neutron-Proton Inter-action: The Scattering of Neutrons by Protons."<ref name="Arnold"/><ref name="Kresge">{{cite journal |last1=Kresge |first1=Nicole |last2=Simoni |first2=Robert D. |last3=Hill |first3=Robert L. |title=From Nuclear Science to Bacterial Cytochromes: the Work of Martin D. Kamen |journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry |date=November 2010 |volume=285 |issue=48 |pages=e17–e19 |doi=10.1074/jbc.O110.000240 |pmc=2988396 |doi-access=free }}</ref>