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Glycogen. The $5,000 annual award of the Sugar Research Foundation went to Austrian-born Dr. Carl Cori of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis. Pale, tall Dr. Cori, 51, specializes in sugar, the basic fuel of human metabolism. For 20 years he has traced the progress of sugar through the body, watched it turn into glycogen (animal starch), measured how much glycogen is stored in the muscles and liver...
Grisein. The $5,000 Passano Foundation Award (kicked in by Williams & Wilkins of Baltimore, medical publishers) went to Russian-born Dr. Selman Abraham Waksman, 59, microbiologist of Rutgers and the New Jersey Agricultural Station. Dr. Waksman is certainly a leading U.S.-authority on antibiotics. His best-known discovery (1945) was streptomycin, the antibiotic which has shown most promise in the fight against tuberculosis. Early this year he persuaded his favorite mold (Actinomyces griseus) to produce another antibiotic (TIME, Feb. 10). The new one, "grisein," teams up efficiently with streptomycin (in the test tube) to fight a variety of stubborn bacteria...
Local speculation, however, liked the award with Professor Hunt's research as director of the University's now-defunct Underwater Sound Laboratory, for which he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University in 1945. The eulogy with the degree said: "Originator and able chief of one of Harvard's large war laboratories; his ingenuity has served the Navy in its battles below the waves...
saul Mariaschin dusted off his award for the most valuable basketball player in New England yesterday, the equivalent of a Hollywood Oscar for those who tread the quintet boards, prior to the trophy's first formal photographic portralt...
Said shaggy Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, as he presented the research award to Dr. Houssay in Boca Raton: "We regret that a few myopic citizens in our sister Republic of Argentina have tried to black out the Houssay scientific beacon at Buenos Aires. But the Houssay beacon still guides and cheers many workers on the frontiers of biology and medicine in every land...