Van Rensselaer Potter
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American biochemist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Van Rensselaer Potter II was an American biochemist, oncologist, and bioethicist. Born in northeast South Dakota, Potter was professor of oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for more than five decades.