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Swiss sanitary chemist Werner Stumm, whose research applies to problems in biological oceanography, was promoted to an associate professor of Applied Chemistry...
...eloquent defense of his sometimes wayward brother, Crown Prince Mohammed; Kenya's Tom Mboya wrote to amplify his role in the London Conference on Africa. On the weighty subject of nuclear controls, former AEC Member Thomas E. Murray stated the case for continued testing, and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey argued in rebuttal that the issue was not technological but political...
...have the tingling feeling that they are about to break through the black unknown. Caltech's Geneticist George Beadle thinks that future understanding of DNA and proteins may tell why some cells of a developing embryo turn into skin, others into bone or brain. Caltech's Pauling, a physical chemist who shifted to biochemistry and proved that proteins have a coiled structure, believes that "very fundamental discoveries are now possible in this field. The foundation has been laid for men to make a penetrating attack on the nature of life." With deeper understanding of the proteins...
Willard Frank Libby, 52, sometimes seems to be a finicky, formal sort of man who wears a business suit in the laboratory, suffers a necktie in the warmest weather. But he gives himself away with his missionary zeal. To Chemist Libby, recruiting bright young newcomers to his calling is every bit as important as his own contributions. His radioactive carbon-14 dating technique brought him his well-deserved Nobel Prize; his five-year service on the Atomic Energy Commission was an invaluable bridge between the possibilities of science and the problems of politics. In Washington, Libby discovered that there...
Linus Carl Pauling, 59, Caltech's outspoken, opinionated chemist, began prying into the personality of the atom just after World War I, when the laboratories of his specialty were alive with novel and productive ideas. The coincidence was explosive. For Pauling believes that "the best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." He had plenty. His theory about the nature of the chemical bond, the forces that make atoms stick together, won him a Nobel Prize in 1954. "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life," says Pauling...