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Fieser mixes business and pleasure in one big beaker. His wife, also an organic chemist, has a laboratory right next to his. She was a student in his first chemistry class at Bryn Mawr, where he taught after studying at Williams and Harvard. They have written six books together--a bulky Fieser and Fieser sooner or later adorns the bookshelf of every Harvard Chemistry major. The Fiesers are childless, but they own two Siamese cats. The elder cat was named "Syn K. Pooh," after Synthetic Vitamin K, which Fieser first synthesized; and the younger was named "J.G. Pooh" after Jellied...
...York City concern called Atomlab this week demonstrated "Radiacwash," a solution for washing radioactivity away. Where water and a strong detergent had failed to decontaminate a beaker in several scrubbings, it was claimed that "Radiacwash" got rid of 95% of the radioactivity in a half-minute scrub...
Cell chemistry is a maddeningly complicated study. It is known that cells contain certain chemicals, but they are not mixed together haphazardly like dissolved salts in a chemist's beaker. Each cell is like a great, complex metropolis. The individual citizens (atoms) are organized into intricate groups like the people of the city. Some groupings (e.g., the three-atom molecule of water) are as small and tight as families. Others are larger, like all the workers in one factory. The various groups interact constantly, their links forming and dissolving as the cell lives and grows. Certain single large molecules...
...Zumikon, Switzerland, Leopold, exiled King of the Belgians, briefly rose from obscurity by giving his royal all to the rigors of the Swiss Golf Tournament, then settled down again with a beaker of something refreshing...
...soldiers in the tropics extra vitamins. The soldiers tested were all healthy young men who were set to work on treadmills in warm rooms. Sweat from the arm was collected by dripping into a bottle. Sweat from other parts was collected on clean gauze or by scraping with a beaker. For a sample of sweat from the whole body, the subject wore long, heavy underwear, then, after he got hot, was stood in a basin, had his underwear peeled off, was rinsed with distilled water...