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...University of Chicago's noted Indian-born astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, when hospitalized for heart surgery, found to his delight that all his doctors and nurses seemed to want to talk about was black holes. The White House also recognizes the gravity of black holes. Upon reading a news article about them one morning, President Carter promptly asked his science adviser, Frank Press, for his thoughts. Press, whose son William happened to have done research on black holes, sheepishly confessed ignorance, explaining that he could not get through the paper so early...
...that eats oil is the result of nearly six years of work by Ananda Chakrabarty, 41, an Indian-born microbiologist. Like most of his colleagues, Chakrabarty knew that at least four strains of the common pseudomonas bacteria contained enzymes that enabled them to break down different hydrocarbons-the major ingredients of oil. He combined these strains into what he describes as a "superbug" that can eat oil faster than any one of the four can individually...
...public trade schools. One student goes to the San Francisco Art Institute; others attend Drew School, a prep school that exchanges scholarships for the labor of Delancey residents. "We know public high school campuses are flooded with narcotics, and we want to protect our kids from that," says Indian-born Mon Sandhu, 27. "That's why we send them to private school...
Endless Variety. At the University of Wisconsin, a group headed by a distinguished Indian-born molecular biologist, Har Gobind Khorana. 47, reported that it had achieved the first artificial synthesis of a gene-the basic unit of heredity in the nuclei of all cells. Although genetic material has been made in the laboratory before, scientists have always had to use at least some natural cellular material in the process. The Wisconsin achievement marks the first time that a single gene has been created entirely out of off-the-shelf chemicals...
Married. Zubin Mehta, 33, galvanic, Indian-born conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, whose piercing eyes, touseled hair and magnetic personality have made him a favorite with women; and Nancy Kovack, a former aide to Dave Garroway on the Today show and 1968-69 Emmy Award nominee for her performance on the TV series Mannix; he for the second time; in a Methodist service followed by a Zoroastrian ceremony; in Los Angeles...