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Elizabeth's Diary. The dead man was Sir Jack Drummond, 61, famed British biochemist, who had devised Britain's palate-poor but vitamin-rich World War II diet of cabbage salads, carrots, grey wheaten bread, potato pastry, and dried eggs. Scientific adviser to wartime Food Minister Lord Woolton he had developed an emergency meal for the bombed-out called blitz soup, and later a predigested food for starved survivors of Hitler's prison camps. A quiet, modest but convivial man, Sir Jack (he refused to be known by his correct Christian names: John Cecil) had once collaborated...
Vitamins. In 1934, Merck's head of research, Dr. Randolph Major, got a call from Biochemist Robert Runnells Williams. Said Williams: "I've isolated a minute quantity of B1." Would Merck be interested in supplying him with more of the natural substance, helping to establish its molecular structure, and maybe trying to synthesize...
Hormones. Then came cortisone. In 1935, a biochemist at the Mayo Clinic, Edward Calvin Kendall, had isolated a hormone similar to those produced by the adrenal glands. But its extraction was painfully complicated; in seven years Kendall could produce only 40 or 50 grams from 120 tons of adrenal glands of cattle. Merck chemists completed the synthesis Kendall had begun. Then Merck took on the job of producing enough of the hormone for physicians to test. Merck went all out in what Kendall calls "the most complicated chemical processes ever carried out in a commercial laboratory on a production scale...
...cancerous lymph nodes, but the metal stays in the body indefinitely after it has lost its radioactivity. Silver concentrates faster, and the body gets rid of most of it. However, radioactive silver is hard to make in a pile and therefore is hard to get. So in Nashville, Biochemist Paul F. Hahn is trying to fool the body by silver-plating his radio-gold...
Will the baby be a boy or a girl? A biochemist at Chicago's Loyola University, Gustav William Rapp, thinks he can find the answer, nine times out of ten, and three to four months before birth. The answer, he believes, is in the mother's saliva...