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Nuworld got its start in 1949 when Dr. Stanley Knight, a bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin, tried using ultraviolet light to irradiate cheese-starting materials, the bacteria cultures that are curdled in milk to give cheeses their individual flavors. Knight turned his findings over to University of Minnesota scientists, who began the job of making a new cheese. Their base was the shepherd boy's familiar mold, now called Penicillium roquejortii...
Other Lasker winners: ¶ Nobelman Hans Adolf Krebs. biochemist (TIME. Nov. 2). ¶Biologist George Wald, 46 of Harvard, for exploring the chemistry of vision. ¶State Health Officer Felix J. Underwood, 71, of Mississippi, for expanding public-health services. ¶Bacteriologist Earle B. Phelps (who died in June) for pioneering in sanitary science...
...five joined a U.S.S.R. bacteriologist, "investigated" the charges as a six-man commission, and found them "true." Shiniest button on the Reds' false front was Cambridge University's Professor Needham, whose summary of achievements fills 5½ in. in the British Who's Who, and who reads and writes Chinese (he was once attached as a scientist to the British embassy in Chungking). But Needham himself has admitted that the commission operated unscientifically...
Amid the usual bacteriologist's clutter on Dr. Frederick G. Novy's laboratory bench at Ann Arbor was an unidentified virus which killed rats swiftly. Dr. Novy knew little more about it, but he had 25 test tubes of the virus, flourishing in rat blood. Then he moved his work from one lab to another and the test tubes vanished. That was in 1920, and ever since, Dr. Novy has longed to know what happened to the virus. As the years passed, he was more & more sure of one thing: if the tubes were ever found, the virus...
...Rockefeller Institute's famed Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos. tuberculosis is a personal enemy. It killed his first wife; his assistant and second wife, Jean Porter Dubos, has suffered from...