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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Council of the Caroline Institute at the University of Stockholm awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology jointly to Drs. Hess and Moniz. His half of the $30,000 would come in handy to Dr. Hess. Said he: "It will simplify my work. I have certain plans and everything costs money . . . Now I will be able to hire assistants...
...discovery of penicillin (almost by accident) in 1928 was a conspicuous breakthrough. Britain's Dr. Alexander Fleming noticed that the mold Penicillium notatum secretes a substance that kills certain bacteria growing on culture dishes. Later it was found that the secretion also kills many disease-producing organisms in the human body. It also does its job without any appreciable damage to human tissues. Fleming's great discovery focused attention on the fact that some micro-organisms are powerful chemical weapons that can be used against other disease-causing microorganisms...
Some of the quick changes in such a "mixed culture" are due to external influences, e.g., changes of temperature or a new food supply. But often the disappearance of a certain microorganism is the result of intramural chemical warfare. It has been knocked out by some other organism, secreting a deadly compound...
...early hits (Mad About Music, Three Smart Girls Grow Up), and produced her most recent flops (I'll Be Yours, Because of Him). She told the judge that a year after their marriage in 1945 (his fourth), Jackson "started a series of unhappy moods and a certain restlessness." She added: "About six months after that, he told me he was unhappy being a married man and preferred being single ... He left me, went to New York City, hasn't been back and I haven't seen him since...
Though "The Father" is a modern drama regardless of its age, (it was first produced in 1887), certain elements in the dialogue date it somewhat. One of these is Strindberg's preoccupation with scientific discoveries, particularly new theories in eugenics and pre-Freudian psychology, and he makes his characters use these as motivations for their actions. However, where O'Neill's characters are products of the laboratory and only clinically interesting, Strindberg's are stimulating to both the emotions and the intellect...