Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Work at the Rockefeller Institute on pneumococci (the commonest pneumonia germs) led Manhattan-born Chemist Heidelberger to devise precise ways to measure antigens and antibodies and also a mysterious something in the blood, awkwardly called "complement." There had even been doubt as to whether complement was a substance or a state...
...will be accompanied by his wife, Mary Peters Fieser, a research chemist and co-author of Fieser's books...
Many of the earliest humans lived on sea food, picking up clams and oysters. Later, man largely deserted the sea as a source of food. Now, with the land filling up with people, the sea looks good again. In Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Dr. Francis Joseph Weiss, Austrian-born chemist, tells how man might harvest the sea's bumper crops...
...must also learn, says Chemist Weiss, to preserve this new and perishable crop. A science of marine chemistry is developing rapidly to do the job by dehydration or chemical treatment. Already many fish products, e.g., fish flour and fish concentrates, are being made imperishable enough to be shipped to any part of the world. But even if all the world were to live on such stuff exclusively, they would never make a dent in the 135 billion tons of carbon (equivalent to 350 billion tons of starch) that is fixed every year in the fertile fields...
...secondary possibilities of atomic war, says Chemist Jack De Ment, in The Military Engineer, is atomic duds. During a bombing attack, one city may be spared while other cities near by are heavily bombed. But into the heart of the untouched city, the enemy may drop a peculiar, ominous object to start a destructive panic...