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...under a despot or a monarch or a Politburo." Reporters noted that the wording was taken almost verbatim from an old speech by, of all people, Mondale's mentor, Hubert Humphrey, but the crowd was thrilled. Face flushed with ex- citement, Hollis Hill, a Birmingham chemist, exclaimed: "He appeals to everything-the American flag, apple...
There are only a few major raw materials of which the U. S. does not have its own supplies. Such are rubber and tin. Such also is silk. Last week, however, the U. S. awarded Patent No. 2,130,948 to the late W. H. Carothers, former chemist for E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. The apparel trade, which had for some time heard rumors of the new Du Pont product under the name of Fibre 66, believed it might prove the first practical process for manufacturing synthetic silk entirely from chemicals...
...Until Chemist Kenichi Fukui won a Nobel Prize in 1981 for his mathematical explanation of chemical reactions, he was more widely recognized abroad than at home. Indeed, when he first propounded his novel ideas 30 years ago, many of his Japanese colleagues scoffed...
Several months later Langston read an article in a medical journal about a chemist who had killed himself after contracting Parkinson's-like symptoms from a dose of artificial heroin. From a report analyzing the dead chemist's brain, Langston found that the heroin involved contained an additive similar to the one in the bad batch of heroin he had been studying. The mysterious ingredient, a chemical known as MPTP, had moved from the blood into the brain and damaged the same area affected by Parkinson's disease. No other substance is known to do that. Last April Dr. Irwin...
...about him the air of restless energy and dedication that is characteristic of the breed, but his interest was slow to blossom. Son of a chemist from Canton, Mass., Scott Holmberg, 33, majored in English at Harvard. Then he joined the Peace Corps in 1971 and found himself working alone in the desolate villages of Ethiopia, struggling to learn Amharic, the country's language. It was there that the power of science changed his life. He vaccinated tens of thousands of people against smallpox as part of a team that effectively stopped the disease in the area. Many villagers...