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Over cocktails, an eminent U.S. chemist expressed his concern about the dearth of young people interested in scientific careers. A television producer in search of programs overheard him. "If you feel that way," he said, "you should do something about it." So the chemist, Nobel Prizewinner Glenn T. Seaborg, co-discoverer of plutonium, and the TVman, Program Director Jonathan Rice of San Francisco's educational Station KQED, got together. The result of this collaboration, a series of ten half-hour television lessons called The Elements, will begin in January over the 22 educational TV stations...
...enclosed was received by Louis F. Fleser from a fellow chemist at the Israel Institute of Technology...
...case of Iowa's Leo Hoegh, the combination of national and local factors is as complex and complete as if some diabolical political chemist had poured together strains of virus out of every test tube in the laboratory. An honest, able governor, he has improved roads, schools and state institutions, has worked tirelessly and successfully to increase his state's industrial potential and to ease its agricultural woe. But he is in trouble...
...anesthesia installations ... no more operative shock, no more anguish, no more pain." This revolution will be wrought, Dr. Ody believes, by improved internal medication - "All the victories which have been the pride of brilliant surgeons will be forgotten on the day when a medical genius, a laboratory man, chemist or physician discovers the substance which, in the form of a capsule, will capture the sources of energy that will bring recovery within hours." ¶Among children who have received the full course of three spaced shots of the Salk polio vaccine, not one death from the disease has been reported...
...terms, such as units of weights and measures, have merely been transliterated. And in the field of chemistry the translaters have hit a major snag. When the Hindi vocabulary was first initiated, Indians knew only seven of the 90-odd stable elements known today. As a result, an Indian chemist talking Hindi sounds like a man switching continually' from English to Hindi in the same sentence. Students entering .engineering schools with little or no knowledge of English have been using their first two years just learning the language in which all available technical books are printed. Repeatedly, Indian educators...