Ancel Keys was born in Colorado Springs in 1904 to Benjamin Pious Keys ( 1883-1961 ) and Carolyn Emma Chaney ( 1885-1960 ) , the sister of Lon Chaney . In 1906 they moved to San Francisco before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck . Shortly after the disaster , his family relocated to Berkeley where he grew up . Keys was intelligent as a boy ; Lewis Terman , a noted psychologist and inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ Test , described him as intellectually " gifted " . During his youth , he left high school to pursue odd jobs , such as shoveling bat guano in Arizona , a powder monkey in a Colorado mine and in a lumber camp . He eventually finished his secondary education and was admitted to the University of California at Berkeley in 1922
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Ancel Keys