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Born into a wealthy Cuban family, he was raised in privilege and schooled at Yale. He began his career in 1954 as a chemist at the company in Havana. That life changed abruptly after he fled Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1961, an event he called the most significant in his life. He and his wife got out with a suitcase and 100 shares of Coca-Cola, which he never sold. He rejoined the company in Florida and progressed through the ranks. By 1974, as head of Coke's labs, he was one of only two top chemists allowed...
Wintemute, 46, who knots his dusky blond hair into a discreet ponytail, could easily be cast in TV's ER series--if he were not so determined to play by his own script. Born and reared in Long Beach, Calif., the son of a chemist-turned-businessman father and a schoolteacher mother, he majored in biology at Yale and later did some graduate work in neurophysiology. Eventually switching to medical school at U.C. Davis, he decided to study emergency medicine, a pressure-cooker specialty that suited his go-go personality. "It's practicing medicine on the run," he says...
...honorary graduates include chemist Sir Edward P. Abraham (Doctor of Science); Secretary of State and Commencement speaker Madeleine K. Albright (Doctor of Laws); psychology professor Jerome S. Bruner (Doctor of Science); and Christian scholar Sir Henry Chadwick (Doctor of Divinity...
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...idea he was a famous chemist," says Timothy Knowles, who was a principal of a primary school before studying at the GSE. "I knew he was an incredibly busy man, always going to somewhere called...