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...their experiments, Chemist Cyril Ponnamperuma and Geochemist Gordon Hodgson flashed a continuous electric arc through a mixture of ammonia, methane and water vapor at NASA's Ames Research Center, near San Francisco. The arc simulated lightning, and the mixture was similar to the atmosphere that most scientists believe existed before life began. In addition to the amino acids, proteins, nucleotides and other life-foundation molecules that were created in previous experiments-some by Ponnamperuma himself-a small amount of an unidentified substance was produced...
Miami Beach North. The Albany center, which began as a state normal school in 1844 and is the oldest institution in the S.U.N.Y. system, is striving for problem-solving competence in the social sciences. One example is its new Graduate School of Criminal Justice, headed by Richard Myren, a chemist with a law degree. He is collecting an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, psychologists, historians and lawyers to apply their combined knowledge to the problems of crime, the courts, prisons and police. Declares President Evan Collins: "We're in a position to bring in the best faculty in the country...
Died. Harry Steenbock, 81, longtime (1908-56) University of Wisconsin research chemist and pioneer in vitamin D-enriched foods; of a heart attack; in Madison, Wis. In 1924, Steenbock discovered that vitamin D could be "activated" with ultraviolet rays from a quartz-vapor lamp, quickly treated milk and other foods to provide the first new source of the rickets-preventing "sun vitamin" since cod-liver oil. His patents could have made him wealthy, but instead he helped set up a foundation to handle royalties, which netted $10,000,000 for the university before a federal court in 1945 ruled...
...company during summer vacations from college. After graduating from the University of Virginia (Phi Beta Kappa) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (master's degree in chemical engineering), he hired on full time in 1932 as a lowly cellophane-machine operator before advancing into such jobs as chemist, industrial engineer and purchasing agent. He rose through a succession of middle-management jobs, in 1960 became chief of Du Pont's explosives division. The following year he was named vice president and a member of the company's all-powerful executive committee...
...Nobel Prize in Medicine for producing the first synthetic DNA molecule. Unlike the 1967 model, however, it was biologically inactive. He has received other awards for his work with enzymes and hopes next to learn how an enzyme like DNA polymerase actually organizes nucleotides into DNA molecules. Bio chemist Goulian worked under Korn berg as a postdoctoral fellow, and is now on the faculty of the University of Chicago Medical School. Sinsheimer is an authority on viruses, has specialized in the study...