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...often the case in science, researchers at the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory were attempting to synthesize an entirely different isotope when mendelevium 258 was created. A team led by Nuclear Chemist E. Kenneth Hulet was using the laboratory's heavy ion linear accelerator to bombard a tiny amount of einsteinium (a transuranium element discovered in 1952) with alpha particles which consist of two protons and two neutrons. "We expected the alpha particles to join with the heavier isotope of einsteinium," says Hulet, "and then decay by a process called 'electron capture' to fermium...
After eight years' work in his home laboratory, an obscure New Jersey chemist last week claimed a grand prize in cigarette research: a filter that removes two-thirds of the tar and nicotine that now drifts past conventional filters, yet does not destroy the tobacco taste. Robert L. Strickman, 56, had impressive backing for his discovery. With full fanfare, it was announced by Columbia University's president, Grayson Kirk, and Dr. H. Houston Merritt, dean of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Reason: Chemist Strickman gave Columbia the rights to the filter -a gift that...
Strickman came from Manhattan's Lower East Side, attended or audited courses at New York University and various other schools, was forced to quit during the Depression, and never earned a degree. Still, he carved himself a chemist's career, now holds pending patents on twelve inventions, and is president of Allied Testing and Research Laboratories in Hillsdale, NJ. Strickman began his search for an effective filter after his father, a heavy cigarette smoker, died of lung cancer. He first offered his discovery to several cigarette companies, but "I never got beyond the front door," probably because...
After earning his degree, Asimov did research on the nucleic acids, then was invited to teach biochemistry at Boston University Medical School. "I had never had a course in biochemistry in my life," he recalls, "but I was a pretty good chemist and figured that the bio wouldn't be too difficult to pick up." His immodesty was more than justified. Before long, he had co-authored Biochemistry and Human Metabolism, a book that is still a well-regarded text on the subject...
Three years ago, Bernard Relin, 53, president of New York's Rheingold Corp., the nation's eleventh largest brewer, heard that a Swiss chemist named Hersch Gablinger had found a way to make carbohydrate-free beer. Now, having bought out his secret, Rheingold's Forrest Brewing division has just introduced a no-carbohydrate beer named after Gablinger. On the bottle is an inscription, "Doesn't fill you up," a pitch that Rheingold hopes will make Gablinger's a bestseller among weight-weary beer lovers...