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...Nobelman Charles Townes came close to being a linguist, Nobelwoman Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 54, of Oxford, third woman ever to win the chemistry award,* came even closer to being an archaeologist. Born in Cairo while her father was Director of Education for the Sudan, she spent her early school holidays in digs in the Near East. But soon after she entered Oxford's Somerville College in 1928, she got caught up in the exciting mysteries of chemistry. By her second year, she was already concentrating on the intricacies of X-ray analysis of large, complicated molecules-the work that...
...many people think of Hodgkin's disease as "a progressive condition leading inevitably to death," Stanford University's Dr. Henry S. Kaplan told the American Cancer Society. Worse yet, many doctors make what Dr. Kaplan considers a fundamental mistake: they give too small doses of radiation to patients in the early stages of the disease, thus giving it more chance to progress. Of all U.S. Hodgkin's patients, only about one-third live five years after the disease is diagnosed, largely because they get too little treatment...
...Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, 49, research professor of Britain's Royal Society, who works at Cambridge, and Andrew Fielding Huxley,* 45, of London's University College, the wets, have worked together in detailed study of the giant nerve cells of squid...
...joined the company as a mill hand in 1919, caught the eye of Founder James Ford Bell and became his chief lieutenant, helping expand breakfast foods (Wheaties, Cheerios), push on into convenience foods (Betty Crocker cake mixes) and half a dozen other businesses from chemicals to electronics; of Hodgkin's disease; in Minneapolis...
...within the body, others close to the skin. The lymph nodes produce some of the white cells that help the body fight off invading bacteria. They are favorite sites for colonization by cancer cells, and the whole lymphatic system may fall victim to a cancerlike process. (Best-known example: Hodgkin's disease.) There may be miles of lymphatic ducts, but they are so fragile and elusive that nobody has measured them. Often buried in fat, they shrink to the vanishing point when not filled with fluid, and disappear at the gentlest touch of the anatomist's probe...