Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis F. Fieser, associate professor of Chemistry at Harvard, will deliver a talk on cancer, which will be illustrated by the use of rats previously infected with the disease...
...large academic question is whether universities should thus capitalize their researchers' discoveries. Last fortnight University of Pennsylvania revealed that it had lost its cancer research department because trustees refused a request of Irénée du Pont, who had supported the department since its founding, that discoveries be patented, profits used to reward discoverers and finance further research...
Reporting to the American Journal of Cancer last week on this first known case of stomach cancer occurring simultaneously in identical twins, Pondville Hospital's Dr. Raymond Edgar Militzer offered it as evidence that susceptibility to cancer is inheritable...
...radioactivity have been duplicated and extended in a half-dozen countries, especially by California's Lawrence and Italy's Fermi. Dr. Lawrence obtained 5,000,000-volt gamma rays from salt, evoked the possibility of injecting harmless but radioactivated salt compounds into the human body as a cancer remedy. Dr. Fermi has coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium. copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, a dozen others...
Wanda Kirkbridge Farr (in private life Mrs. R. C. Saulwetter) is a shapely, well-dressed, vivacious cytorogist (cell anatomist) who got her master's degree at Columbia, did skin & cancer research in St. Louis, taught botany there, experimented for a time at the Boyce Thompson Institute, is now a government cotton technologist. Dr. Sophia H. Eckerson got her Ph. D. at University of Chicago, is a learned, shy spinster not far from 60. has been at Boyce Thompson for 14 years, is known to colleagues male & female as a clever and learned worker with plants...