Word: fieser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Invented Napalm Dr. Louis Fieser, 68, is one of the nation's most distinguished chemists. A professor emeritus at Harvard, he has won a number of national awards for his research into the chemical causes of cancer, and was a member of the U.S. Surgeon General's committee that issued the 1964 report linking cigarette smoke with the disease. Fieser was also a pioneer in developing laboratory production of vitamin K, the body's blood-clotting agent, and antimalarial drugs. Despite these impressive credentials of service to mankind, he has lately received a number of angry letters...
...Your coverage of Harvard lecturers was lamentable. You mistake patronizing showmanship for inspired teaching. Professors Bruner and Fieser, though not so "entertaining" to freshmen as Professor Wald, communicate complex material far more comprehensively and effectively...
Designed for budding scientists, the book would provide Fieser with his opportunity to address youth. "They'll pay attention to what I say about smoking. I hope," he said...
...newly converted non-smoker, Fieser wants to warn the young people of the nation. He would like to give the rights to his autobiographical book, "The Scientific Method" to the American Cancer Society in return for their incorporating in it the personal story of his case and distributing it to high schools across the country...
With medication and a complete cessation of smoking, the accompanying disorders subsided and the operation was successful. "There was little doubt," said Fieser in his letter, "about the origin of these disorders and hence little ground for questioning the origin of the accompanying tumor...