Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intense young man who went to Harvard as an assistant professor in 1922 was no physician but a biochemist, ready to dedicate his life to probing the secrets of proteins. He would never get to treat a patient. But across the U.S. and around the world, hundreds of thousands are alive and well today, thanks to his biochemistry, and the vast majority of his beneficiaries have never so much as heard his name...
...Biochemist Linderstrom-Lang tells what progress has been made toward disentangling the proteins. Progress thus far is not impressive, and until chemists have mastered the proteins' secrets, they cannot understand how life's chemistry works...
Tangled Proteins. Life has mysteries that are just as baffling as those of inanimate nature. Danish Biochemist Kaj Ulrik Linderstrom-Lang pays his baffled respects to the proteins, of which all living objects are largely made. Living cells, even simple bacteria, make proteins by the dozens, but human chemists so far have not synthesized any. The proteins' molecules probably have long central chains of amino acids. These are coiled like springs, and all sorts of chemical oddments must be attached at precisely the right turns of the spiraling chains...
...them have had reason to be glad that the American Medical Society is again operating with prewar precision. From 1904 to 1940 it was host to more than 20,000 English-speaking physicians. Postwar reconstruction was slow, but Boston's Dr. M. Arthur Kline, a nutrition expert and biochemist, was fired with a resolve to revive the society when he went to Vienna two years ago to revisit the scenes of his student days. Now he is the society's energetic executive secretary...
JOSEPH NEEDHAM (Britain), biochemist and embryologist...