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...enclosed in crystallized salt and stay alive. Only last week bacteria were reported that had lived in Antarctic ice for 44 years, since the Shackelton Expedition of 1917. But living in salt for 180 million years is an unheard-of feat. Dombrowski, nevertheless, has able supporters. Bacteriologist Georg Henneberg, head of Berlin's famed Robert Koch Institute, does not doubt that Dombrowski extracted living bacteria from the interior of solid blocks of Zechstein salt-though there is still a slim possibility that the salt was contaminated relatively recently by bacteria that entered the crystalline mass through microscopic cracks...
...Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher: "Only one man ever understood me." Then he paused and said: "And he didn't understand...
...Nobel Prize in medicine for 1961 was awarded last week to a man who began his lifework as a telephone engineer, has only honorary medical degrees, and can never treat a human patient. The $48,300 winner: Georg...
...Georg von Bekesy, Senior Research Fellow in Psychophysics, yesterday was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, for his research on the mechanisms of the car. The award is valued this year...
...narrator is Georg von Geyrenhoff, a civil servant retired in early middle age who, from the vantage point of the 1950s, sets down the book's events in reminiscence. The book peers into boudoir and bar, smart rendezvous and thieves' kitchen, Vienna woods and Vienna sewers, museums, palaces, and slums. There are political riots, murder, sadism, Lesbianism, and varieties of amorous intrigue; but Von Doderer's temperament triumphs over passion and violence to give the book a placid, mellow tone. In a series of tableaux vivants, Von Doderer has captured a moment of history, a few years...