Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the wax had done its job of stimulating a free flow of saliva, the dentist collected a saliva sample from each child and mixed it with a special reagent. Within a few minutes, the samples showed a variety of colors. These color changes, according to an inventive biochemist, Dr. Gustav W. Rapp of Chi cago's Loyola University, predict whether a child is likely to develop a lot of tooth cavities. The colors (from an enzyme in the saliva) will indicate the children's relative risks: blue means little chance of imminent cavities, orchid means some chance...
Winner of the chemistry prize was a jolly biochemist, Melvin Calvin, 50, of the University of California at Berkeley. Born in St. Paul and educated chiefly at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Calvin has long since earned the title: "Mr. Photosynthesis." Shortly after World War II, he began to use radioactive tracers, particularly carbon 14, and other recently developed tools to find out what happens to carbon dioxide when it tangles with chlorophyll in a living green plant cell. Step by painful step, Calvin and his large group of helpers followed CO 2 , tagged with carbon 14, through the intricate...
Severe Ochoa, Nobel prizewinning biochemist. New York University Sc.D...
...Down & Around. Three years and a Ph.D. later. Keys headed for Europe on a National Research Fellowship and began a seven-year odyssey that took him to Copenhagen to study under Nobel Prize-winning Biochemist August Krogh, to Cambridge University for another degree, to Harvard for human-fatigue experiments, and to an 18,000-ft. peak in the Chilean Andes for high-altitude studies of miners. Then he landed at the Mayo Clinic, where he found himself "in a real medical environment" for the first time. Dr. Keys also found his wife-to-be, Margaret Haney, when he interviewed...
...head a Senate Sub-committee on Internal Security, currently investigating communism in the peace movement. They have demanded of Pauling the names of those scientists whom he had asked to help circulate a petition calling for an end to nuclear testing and a general agreement on disarmament. The biochemist has refused to release the names and Eastland and Dodd are now threatening to cite Pauling for contempt of Congress...