Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work had already been widely accepted as a basic part of chemical knowledge. Thus, because the will of Dynamite Inventor Alfred Nobel limited Nobel Prizes to "recent" discoveries, Mendeleev did not qualify. A Nobel historian later called the Mendeleev decision a regrettable error. More recently, Rockefeller Institute Biochemist O.T. Avery, who demonstrated in 1944 that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the carrier of heredity, was first denied a prize because of skepticism about his claims. His death permanently excluded him from the Nobel roster; the award cannot be granted posthumously. Later, Nobel officials announced their regret at having rejected Avery...
...successful work was a joint effort of two five-man research teams-one at the City of Hope National Medical Center in the Los Angeles suburb of Duarte, under Dr. Keiichi Itakura, the other led by Biochemist David Goeddell at a small South San Francisco biochemical firm, Genentech Inc. Though scientists had already produced a precursor of rat insulin with bacteria, making the finished human variety posed greater difficulties. For it consists of two distinct molecular chains, a so-called A strand and a B strand, each of which is produced separately inside the cells of the pancreas under...
Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir, former president of Israel and biochemist--Doctor of Science...
...aspiring biochemist with SAT scores in the mid-700s who is applying from a secondary school which claims he is one of the best students it has ever graduated, will be rejected because "the only thing he has to show for his intellectual ambitions is high test scores," Malin says...
...fill this gap that Biochemist Anthony Cerami created the orphan-diseases lab. Unlike the drug companies, the scientists could not afford to screen thousands of compounds in hopes of finding one that might work. Instead, they concentrated on combining what was already known about a disease with their own ingenuity...