Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Woodward's process, consisting of 30 steps, begins with ortho toluidine and ends with a compound close to cortisone. A process recently completed by Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Hans Heymann, research fellow in Chemistry, takes four steps and adds a vital oxygen atom to the molecule...
Other M.P.s, both Labor and Tory, heatedly echoed the question. Cause of the commotion was Australian-born Scientist Eric Burhop, 40, leftish lecturer in physics at London University who had spent some 18 months during World War II working on atom projects in the U.S. Last fortnight, just as Burhop was about to leave for a "good will" trip to Moscow with 19 other members of the British-Soviet Friendship Society, his passport was canceled...
...Yorker with a firm chin, is now the nation's No. 1 legal hunter of top Communists. He helped Tom Murphy prosecute Alger Hiss, collaborated in the trial of the top eleven Communists and-after becoming U.S. Attorney in New York last year-convicted William Remington and Atom. Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Last week Prosecutor Saypol was busy as a sheepdog. He was trying to keep a handful of second-string Communists within the law's purview, to make sure that they are still on hand when it comes time to try them for conspiring to teach...
...this way. Syntex Inc. of Mexico City, for example, has been making sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone, etc.) out of an inedible wild yam called cabeza de negro, which yields a substance containing the four-ringed steroid nucleus. But cortisone is tougher. For one thing, its molecule has an oxygen atom attached to one of its carbon atoms (No. 11), and to place that oxygen in the correct spot is a difficult chemical trick...
...Perhaps even more promising is another aspect of the Syntex accomplishment. The steroid hormones are, in effect, "code words" which help to control the cells of the body. They are all very similar, built around the same nucleus, but the slightest difference (such as the shift of an oxygen atom from one carbon atom to another) changes their effect. Medical researchers would like to try hundreds of steroids to see what each can do to make the body work properly...