Word: chemists
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Many of the experts say they are surprised that chemical weapons have not been used in a major attack before. The ingredients for making them are available commercially and can be put together by almost any competent chemist. Muslim zealots, for example, are increasingly a younger generation of angry men who have the education and sophistication to construct weapons their fathers and uncles never dreamed...
...massive explosion on Mars millions of years ago blasted into orbit rocks that have landed on Earth during recent decades, University of California at San Diego chemist Kurt Marti said today. Marti claims that he has confirmed that a 40-pound meteorite that landed in Nigeria in 1962 was a piece of the distant planet. He explained that gas bubbles trapped inside the meteorite were matched with the atmosphere that the U.S. Viking spacecraft found on Mars in 1976. Marti said further testing showed that the meteorite was wandering in space for about three million years before it landed...
...reason for all this consulting, cooperation and vetting is based on this premise: One man, even if he is, say, a brilliant chemist and the dean of the Faculty at Harvard, doesn't have the breadth of knowledge, experience and perspective to make the decision all by himself...
...possible the development of the birth-control pill. A Nazi law forced Butenandt to decline his Nobel Prize, which he finally received in 1949. After the war, he helped rebuild Germany's scientific community as head of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. DIED. THOMAS MAYNE, 93, Australian industrial chemist who invented the Milo chocolate malt drink that is a staple in Asian and Australian households; in Sydney. Working for the Swiss food giant Nestle, Mayne spent four years experimenting before he perfected a recipe for the Milo powder mix that Nestle launched in 1934. Today 90,000 tons...
...Dowling, a chemist with the Cambridge water department, said preliminary tests yesterday strongly suggest the epidemic was not caused by anything in Harvard's water supply. Water department officials were unable to find any evidence of coliform bacteria or other common types of contamination, he said...