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...Only Knowles??€™ closest friends knew that his return would likely be his last gift to the institution that he had given nearly half his life. He had already been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and in April 2007, abruptly resigned as his health began to fail...
...Knowles??€™ father, like his father before him, was a professor at the University of Oxford. After finishing his military service, the young Knowles followed them there, enrolling at Balliol College, its pristine Gothic campus home to bright and blue-blooded Britons since the 13th century. There he met a don’s daughter, Jane Sheldon Davis, and married her in 1960. Davis, a literary scholar, is an archivist at the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
...Knowles??€™ work at the lab bench helped revolutionize drug discovery through his research on enzymes, which are organic molecules that speed up biological reactions. He helped explain the function of enzymes through discoveries that guide drug development to this day by allowing scientists to specifically target enzymes involved in certain illnesses...
...comments made by Jeremy R. Knowles??€”dean of the Faculty from 1991 to 2002, and again from April to July 2007—about increases in financial aid during his own administration were a defense of both prior faculties as well as prior deans...
...struggle became public on April 17 when then-Interim President Derek C. Bok, who had also returned to lead the University for a second time, announced to professors that Knowles??€™ condition had worsened...