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...Russian Caucasus, viniculturists like Armenian Marker Grigoryan have been producing champagne by more generally accepted methods. By the new process, for which Chemist Frolov-Bagreev received a Stalin Prize, the champagne will be speedily fermented in giant 1,300-gallon containers. A new factory-"the largest in Europe"-will be specially built in Moscow. Its products will include white champagne, as well as sweet and demi-sweet pink champagne...
March of Science. In Geelong, Australia, Chemist Edgar Noble announced that he had succeeded, after four years of experimentation, in impregnating men's suits with typical scents of the Australian bush...
...test was devised by the association's president, Dr. Charles B. Huggins, 47, Canadian-born surgeon who developed the "Huggins operation" (castration) for advanced cancer of the prostate. Working with him at the University of Chicago were Physician Gerald M. Miller and Organic Chemist Elwood V. Jensen. With scientific hedging, Dr. Huggins called it "for all practical purposes a simple, cheap and reasonably sure test for cancer." He added that his report pulled together work done by others since 1932, and he hoped that it would not be treated as "sensational." If later work backs up the first tests...
Margery Sterling, who took a master's degree in home economics at Cornell, is a young housewife who knows how to turn out a lemon pie. One day husband Robert, a chemist in Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Pittsburgh laboratories, got to wondering if anything on earth was fluffier or lighter than Margery's meringue topping. That helped him along with a scientific idea...
Like most modern advances, the achievement was due to teamwork. But a large part of the credit goes to pretty Dr. Mildred Rebstock, a 28-year-old research chemist who chose a career in research chemistry because "I just liked that sort of thing better than some others." Born in Indiana, Dr. Rebstock (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1945) joined Parke, Davis soon after she left school. She was assigned to the chloromycetin research project in 1947. After two years of testing, she became the first to isolate a synthetic form of chloromycetin that worked on human patients. The life-saving...