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Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry (TIME, Cover, July...
...given mankind a powerful biological tool to produce immunization against diseases. Physicist Charles Townes, from his theoretical speculations about microwaves, sired one of the most revolutionary devices of the age: the maser, of immense practical application not only on earth but in seeking out the wonders of the universe. Geneticist George Beadle has broken barriers with his experiments with such a seemingly trifling substance as bread mold. Physicist James Van Allen has searched out the radiation belts that surround the earth, and Physicist Edward Purcell can eloquently discuss the possibility of communicating with creatures in other worlds by means...
Despite such chilling challenges, the molecular biologists have the tingling feeling that they are about to break through the black unknown. Caltech's Geneticist George Beadle thinks that future understanding of DNA and proteins may tell why some cells of a developing embryo turn into skin, others into bone or brain. Caltech's Pauling, a physical chemist who shifted to biochemistry and proved that proteins have a coiled structure, believes that "very fundamental discoveries are now possible in this field. The foundation has been laid for men to make a penetrating attack on the nature of life." With deeper understanding...
...almost any standard, Stanford Geneticist Joshua Lederberg is the purest of pure scientists. Yet Lederberg's current interests extend into space in a way that pauperizes science fiction. Working under a Rockefeller Foundation grant, he and his Stanford team are designing and building a prototype apparatus that can be landed on, say, Mars or Venus, and can send back information about possible plants, bacteria, viruses or other micro-organisms. Landed gently on the planet's surface, the machine would automatically run out a long tongue with an adhesive surface. This would pick up plants or micro-organisms in the soil...
...biology division at Caltech, was all set to spend his life on the family farm in Wahoo, Neb. when he got a crush on his pretty high school science teacher. Neither Beadle nor science ever quite got over it. The farm boy went to college and became a geneticist. With skill, patience and insatiable curiosity he helped to transform his narrow, abstruse specialty into a vital branch of science. Moving on from the classic fruit-fly experiments which had extended the study of heredity, Beadle began to investigate the intricate internal chemistry of bread mold. His observations...