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...little was once known of the molecular structure of genes that the defects they cause could not be identified or treated. Now, in the baby science of "molecular medicine," chiefly conceived by Chemist Linus Pauling, both problems are beginning to be solved. Last week in Los Angeles, at a conference co-sponsored by the National Foundation and the University of Southern California, Dr. Pauling and others told of their progress...
...second-drawer engineering school at the University of Texas swelled with pride when it acquired a top-drawer man: the University of Illinois' Chemist William Bradley, a leading authority on the molecular structure of materials. Masking its joy, as is proper in academic circles, Texas sent out a routine press release announcing Bradley's appointment-and thereby left untold a typical tale of the great game of faculty raiding...
...plot to kidnap Bradley began three years ago, when Texas heard on the academic grapevine that middle-aged Chemist Bradley wanted the help of a bright young scientist to complement his own work. Texas began to look. It soon learned that Bradley admired a young specialist in crystallography. Dr. Hugo Steinfink, then working for an oil company in Houston.Steinfink was lured to the Texas campus in 1960 with the promise of unlimited freedom and such research tools as a $30,000 refracterometer. The presence of Steinfink hooked Bradley, and the deal was clinched with a new, $4,000,000, eight...
...story does not amuse Harvard scientists; almost half Freshmen interested in science do indeed switch to other fields. The forced humor masks the tension that the conflict between science and the University has aroused in the Faculty. It is this latent hostility that drove a chemist to violent personal attacks on the admissions office voked a historian to reply that the difference between "two cultures" is that one believes in Harvard College and the other destruction...
...other two speakers, Louisa P. Howe, assistant professor of Mental Health, and Marvin T. Kalkstein, research chemist from Bedford, N.Y., likened shelters to surgery and seat-belts. Although war, disease, and automobile accidents are terrible, they both said, we should not be blinded by our dislike of them into an ignorance of safety measures...