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Introduced by the American chemist...
...idea that Doc is just a jock, though. He is also the world's greatest surgeon, the greatest chemist, the greatest inventor. He had Polaroid, television and the shotgun mike at least a decade before the public did, and if you don't watch out, he'll "teleport" you atom by atom to his mysterious laboratory near the North Pole. Like James Bond, Doc is gadget-gaga. Dozens of tiny martial devices-gas bombs, sedative darts, ultraviolet flashlights-are concealed in his clothing. His cars are rolling fire bases that can "go like Barney Oldfield" and crash...
ALTHOUGH his father was a professor in international law and his uncle was a distinguished chemist, Kistiakowsky was just a high school dropout who never even started his senior year. He enrolled in the University of Berlin, and in the confusion of post-war university regulations, he was able to complete both college and graduate work in three and one-half years. So he ended up with...
Died. Dr. Donald Dexter Van Slyke. 88, clinical chemist; of cancer; in Garden City. N.Y. A major contributor to the study of amino-acid chemistry and kidney function. Van Slyke applied innovative analytical methods to both clinical and investigative medicine. He was known primarily for his work leading to the detection of acidosis (a condition often leading to diabetic coma) and his studies of kidney disease...
...some 500 students. Among at least seven University of Dacca professors who were executed without apparent reason was the head of the philosophy department, Govinda Chandra Dev, 65, a gentle Hindu who believed in unity in diversity. Another victim was Jo-gesh Chandra Ghosh, 86, the invalid millionaire chemist. Ghosh, who did not believe in banks, was dragged from his bed and shot to death by soldiers who looted more than $1 million in rupees from his home...