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three daughters, of which I, as the eldest son, was the only one to go to

college, since my father’s income as an elementary school principal was

not enough to educate more than one siblings) through politically and

economically challenging periods of modern times which witnessed the

World War II (1939–1945), the division of the Korean peninsula into the

North and South Korea (1945), the Korean War (1950–1953), the 5.

Military coup in 1961 led by General Chung Hee Park, and the immigra-

tion to and resettling in Trenton, New Jersey, of the Ji family which now

grew in size to 32 members (1974–1982).

I am greatly indebted to the late Professor Chester W. Wood of the

University of Minnesota-Duluth (UMD), who secured a full scholarship

(1962–1965) for my study at UMD as an exchange student from the

School of Engineering, Seoul National University; to the Mr. and Mrs.

Willard Matter and Rev. William Halfaker families (1962–1965) in the

Duluth community who generously provided me with full living accom-

modations as their house guest; to the late Professor Shi Won Choi of

Yonsei University, Seoul, whom I had had met in 1961–1962 when we,

still as undergraduates, were serving our mandatory military duties in the

Korean Army as KATUSAs (Korean Augmentation to US Army) and who,

by selling in 1962 his only voice recorder that he had received as the first-

place winner in a national concours voice competition in Seoul, provided

me with the critically needed fare for my transportation from Inchon,

Korea, to San Francisco on a US Naval vessel carrying US soldiers return-

ing home after their military services in South Korea; to the late Professor

William D. Closson (1965–1970) who advised me in my Ph.D. research at

the Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, Albany; to

the late Professor David E. Green (1970–1974) who, as my postdoctoral

mentor at the Enzyme Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, trans-

formed me from a physical organic chemist to a theoretical mitochondri-

ologist; to the late Britton Chance (1974–1976) under whom I, as a

postdoctoral fellow, was instrumental in developing the micro-light guide

with which we were able to measure redox metabolic heterogeneity in

living tissues; to Professor Manfred Kessler (1976–1979) who invited

me to the Max Planck Institute for Systems Physiology as a B1 researcher

to apply the micro-light guide method to monitor the regional redox

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