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...research chemist for the Navy during World War II, then returned to Columbia to receive his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1948. His thesis-which was definitely not written for the layman-was entitled "The Kinetics of the Reaction Inactivation of Tyroserose During Its Catalyzing of the Aerobic Oxidation of Catechol." Says Asimov: "It was the definitive work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science Writing: The Translator | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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