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Like the sages of his native India, Organic Chemist and Nobel Laureate* Har Gobind Khorana is an extremely patient man. Nine years ago, he began working on the chemical synthesis of a single gene-the basic unit of heredity. By 1970 he had constructed a yeast-cell gene identical to the original-except for one thing: it lacked the vital "start" and "stop" signals to make it function in a living cell. Last week members of Khorana's team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology disclosed that his goal had finally been achieved. At an American Chemical Society meeting...
Henricus Bintanja, 29, a chemist, and Cornelia Hemker, 25, his girl friend, both from Amsterdam, were on a trip around the world. In Hong Kong they met a gem dealer who called himself Alain Dupuis. He invited them to his luxury hotel, sold them a blue sapphire at half the usual price, and told them to look him up in Bangkok. To their surprise, Dupuis was at the airport when they flew in, and he drove them to his apartment. They soon became violently ill. On Dec. 16 their bodies were found on the roadside 40 miles north of Bangkok...
Died. George Oliver Curme Jr., 87, pioneering industrial chemist; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. In 1914, Iowa-born Curme began synthesizing a wide variety of chemicals from hydrocarbons. The chemicals-which included industrial solvents, ethyl alcohol, acetylene for welding, ethylene glycol for antifreeze, and synthetic rubber-spawned entire new industries. In 1944 Union Carbide-which profitably developed his major discoveries-named him vice president in charge of chemical research...
...single most significant development in insect control was the discovery of a compound with the unpronounceable name of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or, as it came to be known, DDT. First synthesized in 1874, the chemical languished in the laboratory until 1939, when Chemist Paul Miiller of Switzerland's J.R. Geigy chemical company discovered its insecticidal properties. The U.S. Army considered the chemical so effective that it classified it "top secret," and first used it against a typhus epidemic in Naples, Italy, in 1943. It worked so well that the military promptly began applying DDT against a wide variety of insects responsible...
...Brian Pethica already knows the U.S. well, and he has no problems political or financial. Now 49, a research chemist at the Unilever Corp. in Port Sunlight, near Liverpool, Pethica has been crossing the Atlantic at least once a year since 1958, and he likes what he calls "the entrepreneurial attitude." But he wants to teach. Says he: "The university system in Britain seems somehow less open, more rigid, more hierarchical. In the U.S. there is a broad diversity of systems, which allows you to educate everyone as far as he can go. That opportunity to broaden the possibilities...