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Chemical and Engineering News tells about a prospecting system that seems to point to the oil itself. Prospector Hans Lundberg of Toronto surveys an oil-promising territory by flying back & forth across it in an airplane equipped with a scintillometer* to count the low-energy gamma rays coming up from the earth...
...intricate processes of giving people immunity against disease, instead of waiting to cure them after they have been stricken (gamma globulin and vaccines for polio are the latest examples), medical science has a relatively new name: immunochemistry. Last week judges for the Lasker Awards recognized its importance by picking as one of 1953's winners Dr. Michael Heidelberger, 65, of New York City, for "decisive contributions to mankind in developing a new subscience. the precise measuring tool of immunochemistry...
...room rug, which rolls, like a window blind in reverse, up a glass wall at the press of a button. Said Hayes: "At Hiroshima and Nagasaki, windows blew out and lots of people were killed by glass. [The rug] catches it. Since the rug is so heavy, it stops gamma rays and neutrons as well...
...Gamma globulin...
...Test areas will be chosen for scientific reasons, and within those areas the test groups will be picked the same way. Estimated cost of the program: $7,500,000 of $26.5 million which the foundation has earmarked for polio prevention. The rest of the money will go for gamma globulin, which O'Connor calls "a stopgap measure" because it can only make polio less severe, not prevent...