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Biochemist, biophysicist, inventor, educator, patriot, Olympian - all these designations accurately describe Britton Chance. The University of Pennsylvania emeritus professor is a groundbreaking scientist, an avid sailor, and he's currently conducting research in both hemispheres of the globe. He is also 94 years old and has a unique perspective on the development of the Greater Philadelphia region as a center for life sciences.
Chance has lived most of his life in or near Philadelphia. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in 1913 and attended Penn for college and graduate studies. At the time, scientists were attempting to discover how enzymes worked. Chance invented a rapid-flow apparatus to assay rapid enzyme kinetics, incorporating features from an automatic photoelectric ship-steering device he designed as a teenager.
In 1938 ...
