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According to Stanley J. Eigen, associate editorof JIR and associate professor of mathematics atNorthwestern University, "Our audience isscientists, engineers, UFO abductees, religiousfanatics--you know, the usual...
...Eigen tells the story of a typical pre-medprank: "Years ago, premed students used to givesomething to some guy to change the color of hisurine," he says. "It's coming out blue and the guyis in a panic. Why do that? Because they have thestuff...
...speed with which these cells can carry out their chemical transactions is, quite literally, mind-boggling. Manfred Eigen, 46, director of Germany's noted Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen, has found that some of the brain's chemical reactions take as little as one-millionth of a second. As many as 100,000 neurons may be involved in transmitting the information that results in as simple an action as stepping back to avoid being struck by an oncoming car. The entire process occurs in less than a second...
...Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Konrad Lorenz's experiments with geese and fish shed important new light on aggression and other behavioral characteristics. At the Institute for Cell Chemistry, Feodor Lynen won a Nobel Prize for his work on fat metabolism. Another Nobel Prize went to Manfred Eigen of the Institute of Physical Chemistry for his success in measuring chemical reactions that last no more than a billionth of a second. More recently the society has branched into less familiar terrain. Under the direction of Physicist Carl Friednch von Weizsäcker, it has set up the new Institute...
Sharing this year's three-way Nobel Prize for chemistry are German Chemist Manfred Eigen, 40; Ronald G.W. Norrish, 70, professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Cambridge University; and Norrish's onetime student George Porter, 48, now a professor of chemistry. Eigen, Norrish and Porter were honored for their studies of rapid chemical reactions, which date from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Their Nobel-winning research revealed the subtle changes that take place during chemical reactions that last only one-billionth of a second. All three came to their award-winning conclusions by subjecting samples of various...