Word: chemists
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...fact is that most pharmaceutically useful compounds are made the old-fashioned way, by combining reagents in a laboratory flask. Last week the Royal Swedish Academy returned to the roots of the science. Elias James Corey, 62, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is an organic chemist's chemist, a master of the art of making biological molecules one painstaking step at a time...
...Chinese folk medicine, taken from the ginkgo tree, that is now widely administered as a treatment for asthma and circulation disorders. But he was also honored last week for a broader intellectual achievement: pioneering "retrosynthetic analysis," an approach to building molecules that Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel- winning chemist himself, likens to a chess game with nature...
Gould spent the first 10 years of her life in New York City. Her father was a chemist, and her mother a biologist who worked for the Museum of Natural History...
...grew up with the idea that women could have a career and that was important in counteracting the atmosphere of the '50s," Gould says over lunch at Adams House, where she is a member of the Senior Common Room. "My father hoped all along that I would be a chemist, but there was no way I was going to do that...
...although many of Lowell's reforms remainimportant components of today's University, hissuccessor, too, changed Harvard's course. When theCorporation selected chemist James B. Conant '14in 1933, it decreed a future of modernlaboratories and graduate programs...