Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointed day, the widowed mother, her two sons, her daughter and her son-in-law were shown into the office of their host. For the next quarter-hour, President Ford did what he could to apologize to the family of Frank Olson, the Army's civilian biochemist who committed suicide 22 years ago after the CIA had spiked his drink with...
Giving LSD to someone without his informed consent opens the door to the "ruthless modification of people's minds," declared Dr. Judd Marmor, president of the American Psychiatric Association, after he heard the circumstances of the suicide of Biochemist Frank Olson (TIME, July 21). Even if done for security reasons, added Marmor, such experiments as those conducted by the CIA are unethical...
...Olson was a civilian biochemist employed by the Army at Fort Detrick, Md., the Army's supremely secret biological-warfare center, which was closed in 1971. Olson was working on a highly classified project for the CIA, which was interested in learning about the effects of new and powerful drugs that its agents conceivably could use-or have used on them. After spending a five-day period away from home engaged in the research, Olson returned in a state of unusual agitation. His wife was baffled and then alarmed by his moods of self-doubt and self-recrimination...
Laragh, like his mentor, also believes in hard work. He gets to his office by 7 o'clock most mornings and shuttles between there, the Hypertension Center and his laboratory until hunger, exhaustion or Jean Sealey-a biochemist and his bride of four months-forces him to stop. "We haven't even had a honeymoon yet," complains Jean in a soft burr that attests to her origins in Glasgow, Scotland. "The day after we were married we went off to a hypertension meeting in Milan." But Laragh, who has two sons by a previous marriage that ended...
...from one animal to another. The research had far-reaching implications for immunology and cancer research. In fact, the early results were so significant that one paper reporting them was sponsored for publication in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by James D. Watson, the Harvard biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize for helping to decipher the structure of the genetic material DNA. Since April, however, attempts by Dressler's group to duplicate the results have been unsuccessful, raising doubts among scientists about the experiments. In the light of the revelations about Rosenfeld, the April cutoff...