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> Carl David Anderson (1936), Caltech professor of physics, student of atomic structure and various atomic fragments, discoverer of the positron.
> Harold Clayton Urey (1934), Columbia University professor of chemistry, deeply concerned with the social consequences of science, discoverer of "heavy hydrogen" and "tagged atoms."
> Karl Landsteiner (1930), Vienna-born, since 1922 brilliant physiological chemist at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in Manhattan, discoverer of human blood groups, which made blood transfusion practical.
Fattest human being ever known to medical science was the late Mrs. Ruth G. Pontico of Tampa, Fla., who was 5 ft. 5¶ in. tall and weighed 772½ lb. This conclusion, the result of a long series of study of the proper anatomical dimensions of mankind, was made...
Discoverer of the mechanism of sulfa-therapy is Bacteriologist Paul Fildes of London. Certain bacteria, he found, mistake the sulfa-drugs for a vitaminlike substance-probably of the vitamin B complex-which they need for growth. Consuming the pseudo-vitamin instead of the real, the bacteria fail to multiply, so...