Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, in August 1952, three camping Britons-famed Food Expert Sir Jack Drummond. his wife and his ten-year-old daughter Elizabeth-were found brutally slain on the Dominici farm. The murder became a cause célébre (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952). Biochemist Sir Jack was renowned for his part in setting the nutritional minimums for Britain's wartime rations; the failure to find his killer was an international humiliation for the French police. After long and confused police investigations, Gaston Dominici was carted off to prison. Last week the mahogany-faced old peasant, now 77, stood...
CATTLEMEN may no longer have to gamble on which calves to sell off and which to keep for fattening. Dr. H. O. Kunkel, a biochemist at Texas A. & M. College, worked out a blood test that showed, on 300 cattle, which ones would gain the most weight...
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...
...spot (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950). Cohn had just summed up his life's work and theories in a paper forbiddingly entitled "Evidence and Consequence of the Fine Structure of Protein." As he was about to circulate copies to the handful of other protein men who could understand it, Biochemist Cohn's blood pressure caught up with him. He had a cerebral hemorrhage and died, aged 60. It will take years of complex laboratory work to prove or disprove the theories on the synthesis of proteins which Cohn propounded in his last paper. "But," said a grieving assistant gratefully...
Died. Edwin Joseph Cohn, 60, Harvard biochemist, who explored the structure of protein, identified and isolated many life-saving components of human blood; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston (see MEDICINE...