Word: craig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game yesterday, leading the rout against Cornell was number six man John Thorndike, who walloped Ron Booth, 15-7, 15-3, 15-8. John Vinton, number five, lost only one more point than Thorndike, crushing Craig Sommers...
...Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced that its 1963 award of $10,000 for basic medical research will go to a man who is not a physician, but who has developed a technique for discovering those important differences. The man is the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Lyman Creighton Craig; the technique is called countercurrent distribution, or C.C.D...
Crystal Pipe Organ. Iowa-born Chemist Craig, 57, went to the Rockefeller in 1933 and did a monumental job separating the ingredients of ergot. World War II prompted Dr. Craig to switch to a group of chemicals that the armed forces were studying as substitutes for quinine. Among them was chloroquine, and Dr. Craig needed to know whether a chloroquine preparation was reasonably pure or contaminated with too many related chemicals...
...Craig dissolves the substances to be separated in one of the solvents; the solution is shaken with the other solvent to produce an emulsion (crudest example: oil and water). The substance that he wants to pick out will dissolve more in one component than in the other when they are all shaken up in the glass tubes. The emulsion causes rapid distribution of the substances between the solvents. After the solvents have separated, the C.C.D.'s electronic brain tells it to tilt and pour off the liquid from the top of each tube into the next tube. Repeated hundreds...
From the chloroquine family of chemicals, Dr. Craig moved on to the penicillins, which were being produced under a wartime crash program. He has since turned to bacitracin (another anti-biotic), fatty acids, the master hormones of the pituitary gland, the hormones of the parathyroid, and insulin...