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Official discoverer of the new comet was Professor John Paraskevopoulos of Harvard's observatory near Bloemfontein, South Africa, who reported his find on Nov. 7. Other southern hemisphere astronomers spotted it about the same time, as did at least one nonscientific night owl. Captain Frank McGann of Panagra saw...
Died. Wilfred Meynell, 95, poet, essayist, discoverer of drug-addict Poet Francis Thompson; in Pulborough, England. With his poet-wife, the late Alice Meynell, he founded and for twelve years edited the literary review Merry England. In 1888, he received some verses written on blue sugar-bag paper by the...
Dr. Selman A. Waksman, 60, Russian-born Rutgers University biologist, discoverer of streptomycin, and Dr. Rene J. Dubos, 47, French-born Rockefeller Institute biologist, honored jointly for their pioneer work in antibiotics.
The Lasker Foundation, formed in 1942, reflects the varied Lasker interests: fellowships for graduate students working with Sir Howard Florey, co-discoverer of penicillin (he picks the students); money for cancer research directed by the University of Chicago's Dr. Charles B. Huggins (his projects); research in hardening of...
A whole galaxy of cosmic ray experts gathered last week at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, to honor Nobel Prizeman Dr. Robert A. Millikan, 80, principal discoverer and namer of cosmic rays. Dr. Millikan, who was spry enough last summer to travel by station wagon from Texas to Canada...