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...vaccines. The Department of Health and Human Services last spring awarded a $97 million contract to Sanofi-Aventis, a Paris-based drug company, to develop avian-flu vaccines using human cells. The company is preparing a 20,000-liter bioreactor tank in the U.S. to brew test cultures. Jaap Goudsmit, chief scientific officer for Netherlands-based Crucell, which supplies cell-culture technology to Sanofi-Aventis, expects to test the first cell-based avian-flu vaccine as early as next spring...
DIED. Samuel A. Goudsmit, 76, Dutch-born atomic physicist and amateur Egyptologist; of a heart attack; in Reno. In 1925, while enrolled in the University of Leiden, Goudsmit and Fellow Student George E. Uhlenbeck determined that an electron spins as it orbits the nucleus of an atom, a discovery that helped explain how atoms have magnetic properties. Two years later, he emigrated to the U.S., and during World War II served on a secret European mission to investigate German progress toward the atomic bomb...
Other speakers during the colloquy will include Professor Paul A. Weiss of the Rockefeller Institute, Professor Samuel A. Goudsmit of the Brookhaven National Laboratories, Professor Francis O. Schmitt of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Professor Harold G. Cassidy of Yale...
Joseph W. Barker, president and chairman of the Research Corporation, announced the selection and noted that Woodward, in becoming the twentieth recipient of the award, "joined a distinguished company including Vannevar Bush, Percy W. Birdgman, Ernest C. Lawrence, Bruno Rossi, Edwin M. McMillan, Edward C. Kendall, Samuel A. Goudsmit, and George E. Uhlenbeck...
...Germans had not even been close in the atomic bomb race. Plump-faced Dr. S. A. Goudsmit, head of an American scientific intelligence mission to Germany, told an amazed Senate hearing last week that top German physicists had thought such weapons were "a hundred years away." Far from being on the verge of atom bombs as the war ended, they were still in the early experimental stage. But, with German arrogance, they had thought that the Allies were even further from success...