Word: bacteriologists
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...know what kind of germ they are fighting. Hence, they do not know which drug to use. If they take a specimen from a patient, e.g., sputum, spinal fluid, they can grow the bacteria from it and eventually identify them, but this takes about a week. In Atlanta, Bacteriologist Max D. Moody of the U.S. Public Health Service described a method for achieving this result within an hour...
...widow was Greek-born Lady Fleming, 42, second wife of Bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming and a bacteriologist herself. Scientists are the 20th century's heroes, but nowhere has Fleming's death (TIME, March 21) been mourned as intensely as in Spain, where people have come close to canonizing the dour little Scottish Protestant. Main reason: long after infectious diseases were brought under control in more advanced countries, they persisted as wholesale killers in poverty-ridden Spain-until penicillin...
Died. Sir Alexander Fleming, 73, Nobel Prizewinning Scottish-born bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928; of a Coronary thrombosis ; at his home in London (see MEDICINE...
...just as good; a powdered extract of bacilli to make a vaccine which compares with BCG; better understanding of the need for vitamins A and C in treating patients. But the dominant tone of the meetings was a harshly realistic note sounded by the Rockefeller Institute's famed Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos...
...view of the geography of the universe, and through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist, the late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Oct. 12), made the blood bank possible; another, Chemist Robert Woodward, developed a theory that may lead to the synthesis of terramycin and aureomycin...