Word: bio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discover the full impact of the space trip on Biosatellite's passengers, some of the results were immediately evident after the parachuting capsule had been plucked from the air over the Pacific by a C-130 recovery plane. Dartmouth Botanist Charles J. Lyon took a look at Bio-satellite's wheat seedlings and found that they had germinated, sending out roots and sprouts that were normal in form but sprawling in unusual directions be cause of the lack of gravity. North American Aviation Plant Physiologist Samuel Johnson opened the pepper plant packages and found their leaves folded down...
Picking Up Bio. Asimov's scientific credentials are impeccable. After earning his masters degree in chemistry at Columbia University, he worked as a research chemist for the Navy during World War II, then returned to Columbia to receive his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1948. His thesis-which was definitely not written for the layman-was entitled "The Kinetics of the Reaction Inactivation of Tyroserose During Its Catalyzing of the Aerobic Oxidation of Catechol." Says Asimov: "It was the definitive work...
After earning his degree, Asimov did research on the nucleic acids, then was invited to teach biochemistry at Boston University Medical School. "I had never had a course in biochemistry in my life," he recalls, "but I was a pretty good chemist and figured that the bio wouldn't be too difficult to pick up." His immodesty was more than justified. Before long, he had co-authored Biochemistry and Human Metabolism, a book that is still a well-regarded text on the subject...
Also, William H. Hughes, in Chemical Physics; Roy P. Mottahedeh '60, in History; and Maxime Schwartz, in Bio-chemistry and Genetics...
...students who take these courses have become so divergent that they cannot be handled by the present basic sequence of chemistry courses: Chem 1 or 6, Chem 20, and Chem 60. The pre-med finds much of the material that is presented irrelevant to his main interest -- bio-chemistry. The chem concentrator is held back by the large number of relatively uninterested pre-meds in his classes. The instructors are faced with the problem of too much general material to cover in too little time, and have made chemistry courses unreasonably time consuming and lacking in depth...