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Love can be a powerful�motivator even, it turns out, when the object of your passion is a molecule. Charismatic, enthusiastic biochemist Arthur Kornberg, who won a 1959 Nobel Prize for his discovery of DNA polymerase, the enzyme needed to produce synthetic DNA, credited his research and teaching career to his "love affair with enzymes." In recent years Kornberg, whose work on DNA helped spark the biotechnology revolution, studied polyphosphate--a substance dismissed as useless by colleagues. Kornberg, who lamented the "clannishness" and lack of creativity of many in the scientific community, was convinced that it could...
...want to be sure of every detail,” Ferrara said. “We want to get it on the field this fall.” Ferrara’s project has significant Harvard ties in addition to his own. One of his advisors, Arthur L. Boland, is the Head Orthopedic Surgeon for the Crimson’s medical room, and William J. Cleary, Jr. ’56, a member of Xenith’s Board of Directors, served as Harvard’s athletic director from 1990-2001. If Harvard does adopt the new helmet...
...hilarity, “The Mineola Twins” largely hits period stereotypes. In its comedic moments, the show evokes chuckles rather than real laughs from Myra’s idolization of Beat poetry or Myrna’s inability to distinguish between distant figures in the newspapers, like Arthur Miller or Stalin...
...addition to all the other distinctive features of the evening, playwright Arthur L. Kopit ’59 will be in attendance on opening night to participate in a post-show discussion of his work. Priour maintains that his level of excitement is almost indescribable...
...only now, with the publication of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, do we have a candid, personal portrait of the writer, with little of the Victorian reserve of his memoirs. Most of the nearly 1,000 letters are to his beloved mother, Mary Doyle, beginning in 1867, when he was an 8-year-old boy at a Jesuit boarding school, and continuing until 1920, when Mary died. The book's editors - two Conan Doyle scholars and the author's great-nephew - also provide plenty of background material, rare drawings and photographs, and relevant excerpts from Conan Doyle...