Joseph Walder was born in 1951 in Philadelphia; his father was a furniture salesman, and a child of immigrants. The family moved to suburban Chicago, where Joe grew up. Joe had a passion for science from the very beginning, and his father built him a basement chemistry lab for homemade experiments. He went on to earn both an MD and a PhD from Northwestern, eventually becoming a professor of biochemistry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Read more: https://mishpacha.com/he-held-the-secrets-to-success/
