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To dedicate the first building of their new Medical Research Foundation, Oklahomans wanted a big name. They picked Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, and sat back to wait for an answer to their invitation through diplomatic channels. After ten days, General Manager Hugh Payne got tired of waiting, picked...
Britain's Reginald Reynolds, a "confirmed serendipitist" (discoverer of unexpected treasures) and the author of a learned, witty study of sewage-disposal problems (Cleanliness and Godliness, TIME, May 6, 1946), is no nostalgic yearner for the boskier days of old. In Beards he stands aloof (and beardless), a lollipop...
70. From patent rights on streptomycin donated by discoverer Dr. Selman Wakeman, a new $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology will be built at:
Not at all, argued glib New York Post Home News Pundit Max Lerner, after studying the list. These 25 men might be the "movers and shakers, in the narrow sense of power. But they are not the men who rule the world . . ." Lerner, perhaps confusing influence with power, made his...
Dr. Selman A. Waksman, 60, discoverer of streptomycin and neomycin (TIME, April 4), has dreamed for years of better facilities for hunting new antibiotics and for teaching others to join in the search. Last week streptomycin and the generosity of Scientist Waksman brought the dream near reality. Rutgers University announced...