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Peter Walter’s Biography

Growing up on West Berlin, Germany, Peter Walter spent numerous hours in his father’s chemist shop, a drugstore where herbal medicines, chemicals and various household items were sold.

This exposure—along with his own dabbling in the pyrotechnical adventures of mixing and igniting chemicals—fostered Walter’s early interest in science. By age 12, he knew he wanted to be a chemist.

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Walter began his study of chemistry in 1973 at the Free University of Berlin. Three years into the program, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he joined the chemistry department at Vanderbilt University as an international exchange student.

Working in the laboratory of Tom Harris on the biosynthetic pathway of a fungal alkaloid, he quickly discovered that American universities offered even young students cutting-edge hands-on research experiences and fostered their early development as independent researchers.

Walter became hooked on thi