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Five years ago Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley, an organic chemist trained at the University of Illinois and in Germany, went to work in the new laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute at Princeton. His objective was to find out what viruses are. Last week at a biophysics meeting in Philadelphia (sponsored by the American Institute of Physics and the University of them as Pennsylvania) he "mysterious was still purveyors of referring disease'' to but he was able to tell much more about them than he or any man knew five years ago, to describe the results which...
...investigators had been observing the effect on plants of certain gases such as ethylene, acetylene, carbon monoxide. These effects in some ways were similar to those produced by the plant hormones. Eastman Kodak Co. was selling a near chemical kin of heteroauxin-indole-3n-propionic acid. The Boyce Thompson chemist thought he might be able to convert one to the other. Before he started, however, Drs. P. W. Zimmerman and A. E. Hitchcock tried out the indole-3n-propionic acid itself. To their unbounded delight, it produced nearly the same phenomena as a plant hormone. Promptly they began experiments with...
...Author. California-born (1900), big, blond, blue-eyed, slow-spoken John Ernest Steinbeck has been a farm hand, hod carrier, caretaker, chemist and painter's apprentice, itinerant newspaperman. At Stanford University off & on for six years, he treated it as a sort of public library where he read only what took his fancy: physics, biology, philosophy, history. Indifferent to most fiction, he thinks Thackeray passable, cannot stomach Proust because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos...
While studying under Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, Manhattan Artist Elizabeth Ely de Vescovi Whitman met a Mexican chemist, Gonzalez de la Vega, founder of the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Mexico, who shared her interest in experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made...
...biological label, heavy nitrogen promises Lo be even more important than heavy hydrogen, since nitrogen is the characteristic constituent of protein foods and their constituent amino acids. With Dr. Urey's heavy hydrogen, Biological Chemist Rudolph Schoenheimer...