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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many other ambitious young scientists, Ho wanted to be the first to isolate the virus that causes AIDS. Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo beat him to it. (Ho came in fourth, after Jay Levy of the University of California, San Francisco.) Still, while working in Hirsch's lab, Ho became expert at detecting HIV in places where few were able to find it. He was the first to show that it grows in long-lived immune cells called macrophages and among the first to isolate it in the nervous system and semen. Just as important, he showed that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DR. DAVID HO: THE DISEASE DETECTIVE | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...skeleton of twins fused at the head and a wax model of a patient with syphilitic leukoplakia of the tongue (above). The calendar sold thousands of copies and won fans as diverse as the Las Vegas magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) and Harvard University professor of biology Stephen Jay Gould, who calls them "works of art." The calendars earned as much as $15,000 annually for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, of which the Mutter is a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A YEAR WITHOUT MUTTER | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...group also elected new publicity chairs Herman Lee '98, Grace Liu '00 and Amresh Raina '99; new educational chairs Jay F. Chen '00 and Ravi K. Dixit '00; and new cultural chairs Tara I. Chang '99 and Claire Tseng...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: AAA Elects Nguyen, Shieh Co-Presidents for 1997 | 12/17/1996 | See Source »

...PRITZKER FAMILIES The Illinois Institute of Technology got another $60 million pledge (over five years) from Robert A. Pritzker, a 1946 graduate and the chief executive officer of the Marmon Group, an international conglomerate based in Chicago, and his brother Jay A. Pritzker, a Chicago attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FINE ART OF GIVING | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Whitman, for example, has already served as treasurer for a year, and Jay has experience as the club's parliamentarian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Republican Club Chooses New Leaders | 12/13/1996 | See Source »

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