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A Harvard zoologist last week proved the existence of a new female sex hormone. It had taken him 20 years. The new hormone, named relaxin by its discoverer, may be of interest to at least half the human race-for it may eventually help to make childbirth easier.
Relaxin's discoverer is gentle, publicity-shy Professor Frederick Lee Hisaw, 52. He found the hormone during long, painstaking studies of the sex life of the pocket gopher, a small prairie animal that lives in burrows like a mole.
Like Columbus himself, Morison has made four voyages of discovery. In his relentless search for new material on the Admiral's voyages, Morison cruised the Caribbean by yawl (1936-1937): traced Columbus travels along the coast of Santo Domingo (1939); crossed the Atlantic from Palos, Portugal (1939) in an expedition...
A chemical that makes cattle bleed to death, Dicumarol, is now saving human lives. If a man takes Dicumarol capsules before or after an operation, dangerous blood clots may not form in his veins. The discoverer of the drug, Dr. Karl Paul Link, professor of biochemistry at the Wisconsin Agricultural...
Died. Dr. Russell Henry Chittenden, 87, discoverer of protein, longtime director of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School (1898-1922); in New Haven, As a 19-year-old Sheffield senior, he was the first to isolate in living tissue a free amino acid, found in it the glycocoll and glycogen...