Word: chemistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old in the Russian civil war, went on to become a social science teacher, married Khrushchev in 1938. She is his second wife -First Wife Nadezhda died-and she raised Khrushchev's children. Three of the children will be with them in the U.S.: Julia, 38, a chemist, married to Kiev Opera Director Viktor Gonchar; Rada, 29, a biologist, married to Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei; Sergei, 24, an electrical engineer. Khrushchev's son Leonid was a Red air force pilot killed early in World War II, and his daughter Lena, 21, is now a law student...
...Scattered through Woodward's swelling roster are such noted local residents as Architect Hugh Stubbins, Bacteriologist Robert Gohd. Chemist Charles Coryell and Geologist Louis DeGoes...
...Formula. When Bryant, as his family called him, was growing up in Dorchester, on the southern edge of Boston, his hobby was chemically analyzing his mother's laundry soap. The stench forced his photoengraver father to build him a lean-to lab outside the house. But the boy chemist's talents got him into famed Roxbury Latin School (he was the most precocious science student in 20 years) and through Harvard in three years. He married the daughter of Harvard's top chemist; in 1931 Professor Conant himself took over the department. "Bryant," said his mother once...
Died. Adolf Windaus, 82, Berlin-born chemist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize for converting the substance ergosterol to antirachitic vitamin D, was the first to crystallize a vitamin (D in 1931), contributed valuable research to the use of sex hormones and digitalis; of a heart attack; in Göttingen, Germany...
Presbyterian Loehr, 45, was trained as a chemist at Illinois' Monmouth College before he turned to the ministry and "religious research." When he heard six years ago that Duke University's famed extrasensory perceptionist, Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, was testing the effect of prayer on plants, Loehr and his associates bought two sealed jars of water, prayed hard over one, ignored the other, and used them to water two equal sets of seeds, planted under identical conditions. Two weeks later the prayed-over water had produced seven seedlings, the ordinary water only three. "It looked as though...