Word: biophysicist
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...prize for clinical medical research went to Dr. Inge G. Edler, chief of cardiology at University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, and Biophysicist C. Hellmuth Hertz of the Lund Institute of Technology. Their pioneering accomplishment: the application of ultrasonics to diagnosing abnormalities of the heart. Hailed by the Lasker jurors as perhaps the most important nonsurgical tool for heart diagnosis since the development of the electrocardiograph, the technique uses the familiar sonar echo principle: high-frequency (and inaudible) sound waves reflected from a target reveal its characteristics. Echocardiography can, for example, measure heart-muscle thickness, detect valve abnormalities and even show...
...British Nature and the U.S. Science. The visiting scientists were impressed by the work the Chinese have been doing in protein synthesis, in the use of insect and viral agents to replace chemical pesticides, and in trying to find the scientific basis of acupuncture as an anesthetic. Says Biophysicist Floyd Ratliff: "Their work in neurophysiology is very good, comparable to that in the West...
Died. Eugene Rabinowitch, 72, Russian-born biophysicist who, as a senior member of the Manhattan Project during World War II, helped develop the first atomic bomb, then spent the next 27 years as editor of the authoritative Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and a leading proponent of nuclear arms control; after suffering a stroke; in Washington...
...Because doctors have no totally accurate way of judging the strength of bone while it knits, they often immobilize broken limbs longer than necessary. Overtime in traction could soon be eliminated, however. John Jurist, a biophysicist, and Dr. Edmund Markey, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, are experimenting with a technique that could enable physicians to determine with precision whether a bone is strong enough to bear weight. So far, their research has focused exclusively on a long leg bone, the tibia, to which a vibrating machine is attached. After the bone is vibrated at various...
More than half of the dead were Puerto Ricans arriving for a long-planned tour of the Holy Land. Another victim was renowned Israeli Biophysicist Professor Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky, 58, who was returning from a symposium at M.I.T. Also among the dead: two of the three Japanese. One had apparently been shot by a companion who accidentally swung his gun too far. The second had dashed out, and either tossed his grenade at a parked jetliner, and was killed when it exploded on the rebound, or held the grenade in his hand and committed suicide; he was decapitated. The third...