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An apocryphal story, like most good stories, but how well it fits the discoverer of America, for Americans have always liked to imagine in themselves a special gift for confronting any challenge, rejecting any doubts, refusing to admit failure. "The difficult we do immediately," said a memorable World War II...
In the early '70s Schultes used his experiences to co-author a book on the botany and chemistry of hallucinogens, with Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD.
The Gene Age benefits from an insider's understanding of the industry. Lynn Klotz is an executive of Bio Technics International, a genetic engineering firm located in North Cambridge. (Klotz was Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard when recombinant DNA research first began.) His knowledge brings some...
"MY HERO," writes Daniel J. Boorstin '34 "is Man the Discoverer." His discoverer-heroes are bold seafarers and careful clockmakers; they are census-takers and historians. Their daring feats to invent clocks and maps and dictionaries that light our way through the night of ignorance.
The man who made possible this incalculable alleviation of human suffering is Dr. Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the antibacterial effect of the mold from which penicillin is made. He is a short (5 ft. 7 in.), gentle, retiring Scot with somewhat dreamy blue eyes, fierce white hair and a mulling...