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Five years before the triumph of the Harvard group, Organic Chemist Har Gobind Khorana, a Nobel laureate now working at M.I.T., had synthesized a yeast gene, the simplest gene yet made. Already aware of the sequence of the 77 "code letters," or nucleotides, in the DNA of the gene, Khorana painstakingly "assembled" the letters one at a tune in the proper order to produce a synthetic unit. The rabbit gene is at least eight times as large, containing about 650 nucleotides strung together in a sequence that scientists have not yet completely determined. Clearly the Harvard group could not follow...
...Harvard Magazine. In it, five arms-control experts judge that some nuclear wars are likely to occur before this century's end. The five are: Schelling, a professor of political economy; Biochemist Paul Doty, head of Harvard's Science in International Affairs program; Physicist Richard Garwin; Chemist George Kistiakowsky, a former executive of the Manhattan Project; and M.I.T. Political Scientist George Rathjens, formerly a special assistant to the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...
...done by people who were so completely enmeshed in the subject and the difficulty of production [100 Ibs. of shellfish produces 1 gm. of toxin] that they simply couldn't bear to see the stuff destroyed." But Nathan Gordon, the stooped and bushy-browed ex-CIA chemist who was in charge of the toxin and cobra venom in 1970, maintained that he had never received an order to destroy them. That order apparently should have been relayed to him from Helms by Sidney Gottlieb, a chemist, who was then director of the agency's technical services. The committee...
...matter of fact, the poll showed that a great many people who have strong opinions about "the scientific community" today are not really familiar with it. Of the 20 scientists most frequently mentioned by name in responses to the survey, only seven are living. Among them: Astronomer Fred Hoyle, Chemist Linus Pauling and Physicist John Taylor. The rest included such figures from the myth-laden past as Archimedes, Galileo, Marie Curie, Darwin and Einstein...
...cigar packer who had immigrated to the U.S. from Russia, Revson started out in the cosmetics business in Manhattan during the unglamorous Depression year of 1932. With $300 borrowed from loan sharks-at 24% interest-Charles and his older brother Joseph joined forces with a chemist named Charles Lachman, who was to become the l in Revlon. Working out of a rented room on the West Side, the three began making a creamy, opaque, nonstreak nail polish that Lachman had developed. Initially, they sold to beauty parlors, which were then enjoying a boom because of the popularity of the permanent...