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...Manhattan Project, America's prodigious World War II program to build an atom bomb, was set in motion by the fear that Hitler's Germany would produce the weapon first. Experts in the U.S. thought German science could have a lead in the race because a German chemist, Otto Hahn, had discovered nuclear fission in 1938. His countryman Werner Heisenberg was considered by many to be the world's leading physicist and was certain to be at the center of any Nazi A-bomb effort...
...rats' teeth sharp and insect cuticle hard? By answering such questions, Lewis and other researchers hope to usher in an exciting new era in materials science, one based not on petroleum products like nylon and plastic but on proteins synthesized by living, growing things. "Why go to an organic chemist for new materials," asks University of Mississippi biochemist Steven Case, "when nature has already produced some beauties...
...because she's a single woman. Indians in Dr. Quinn are not hostile, just misunderstood; a hawker of phony patent medicines turns out to be a surgeon who grew disillusioned after witnessing battlefield carnage during the Civil War. Seymour, as the town's doctor, psychologist, police force and environmental chemist rolled into one, is the biggest anachronism of all. But a right purty...
...raised with a second generation middle class background because both my parents came from working families and my father was the first black chemist in the rubber industry. We grew up as middle class but always with that sense of 'well you've got to save,' which came from that borderline where you're always rubbing up against two classes and things like that...
...biological chemist has been at Berkeley since 1985. In 1987, he was promoted to associate professor, and in 1987 was granted tenure...