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Another active politician was Harold Clayton Urey, Nobel Prizewinner and discoverer of heavy water. From headquarters in Chicago, he made lobbying forays to Washington, delivered speeches, organized U.S. scientists. Said he: "Men are going where they can work with less heckling, where they don't have to go through...
Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, was awarded one-third of the $30,000 Nobel Prize in medicine; sharing it with him were two less publicized British penicillinists-Sir Howard Walter Florey, organizer of the research team which found practical means of extracting the capricious drug, and Dr. Ernst Boris...
A parade of scientists who took exception to the May bill's security provisions passed before Congressional committees. Others made statements to the press. Columbia's Dr. Harold C. Urey discoverer of heavy hydrogen, favored a worldwide ban on the manufacture of atomic weapons. Dr. Herbert L. Anderson...
Sir Alexander Fleming, penicillin's discoverer, presented Pope Pius with a plate for cultivating mold to be used in re searches. In return he received this year's Pontifical Medal (picturing the Good Samaritan), and was eulogized as "a geat benefactor of mankind."
*Grateful for their new bonanza, drug companies last week gave Penicillin Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming a ?20,000 research fund to be used by his St. Mary's Hospital laboratory as he sees fit.