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Tailored Doses. In the small hospital that is part of the Atomic Energy Commission's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, Dr. George C. Cotzias tried an early, less purified form of dopa and obtained confusing results. Some patients with mild early symptoms got no better; others with more severe disease improved markedly, but in some cases the side effects, such as vomiting, were intolerably severe. Cotzias forecast that the more refined L-dopa form of the drug might be better, and manufacturers began to produce it in increasing amounts...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Atomic Medicine." What nuclear scientists at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratories are doing to harness the atom for medicine...
...Nobel prizewinner, Rabi developed the molecular-beam magnetic-resonance theories that laid the foundation for microwave radar, lasers, masers and modern radio astronomy. He was a consultant to the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb, and was one of the men responsible for creating the famed Brookhaven National Laboratory. Rabi also helped make Columbia's physics department one of the best in the entire world...
...Mars than we are on studying the earth." Columbia's Professor I. I. Rabi, a Nobel prizewinning physicist who is in favor of the moon program, points out that Congress recently made a sharp cut in appropriations for a new nuclear accelerator and for the cosmotron at Brookhaven, But it refused to slice into space allocations. "Disgraceful," says Rabi...
...since its founding in 1925, esteemed both for his squiggly line drawings ("Nobody will catch on when I get senile," he once said) and for his sharp gag lines, which often formed the bases of cartoons by his colleagues Charles Addams and Helen Hokinson; of a heart attack; in Brookhaven...