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The Lifelong Pursuit of Science
As a child, Francis grew up on a farm with no indoor plumbing. His mother taught him at home until the sixth grade. He went to UVA where he majored in chemistry and Yale where he got a PhD in physical chemistry. In medical school, genetics emerged as "the perfect way to put together this mathematical, digital part of my brain"