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...James Hillier of the Radio Corporation of America displayed electron pictures of parasitic viruses attacking bacteria. The viruses (one four-hundred-millionth of an inch in diameter) looked like tadpoles with skinny tails and bodies. They penetrate the cell wall of the larger bacterium until they fill the whole cell...
Home Is the Hunter. In Eddington, Me., the menfolk returned empty-handed from a day's hunting to find that Mrs. Willard K. Hillier, 70, had bagged a bear in her backyard...
...inventor of this "electron microanalyzer" is a fledgling still in his late 20s, James Hillier, co-inventor of the electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940). The general atomic composition of bacteria and viruses is well known-they are mostly carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen. But under high electronic magnification (100,000 times), bacteria often reveal granules of previously undetected substances that are hard to identify. The granules are much too small to be analyzed by a spectroscope, the conventional instrument for the quick determination of atomic components...
...Hillier's analyzer, like the electron microscope, does its job by bombarding a substance with electrons. It has an electron "needle" of extremely fine focus. Hillier first lines up his minute target (such as the head or tail of a virus) by means of the microscope, then needles it with an electron stream of some 50,000 volts. This dislodges electrons from the atoms in the target. Since the energy required to dislodge them varies with the kind of atoms present, the loss of energy in the bombarding electrons after they pass through the substance indicates the nature...
...National Beauty Congress in Seattle last week one Norman Hillier of Manhattan blatantly advised women who are getting bald to stand on their heads. Said he: "Standing on the head brings blood to the scalp...