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...accomplishments, Dr. Arbona received one of three annual Bronfman Foundation awards ($5,000 each) of the American Public Health Association last week. The other winners: Dr. Alexander Langmuir, 55, chief of the U.S. Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta (the famed "disease detectives"), and Dr. George James, 50, who is now taking the deanship of Manhattan's developing Mount Sinai School of Medicine, after three years as New York City's commissioner of health...
...soloists, who were often embarrassing, presented another set of problems. Counter tenor Donald Parsons was the worst detractor, and bass Donald Langmuir, though not prone to missing notes like Parsons, lacked power and richness. Greer McLane, the mezzo soprano, was the best of the trio, if rather uninspired...
...Alexander Langmuir, chief epidemiologist for the U.S. Public Health Service, testified that in the ten months ending October 1960, the national rate for all viral hepatitis was 26 per 100,000. But among Weiner's 329 patients for the period, 40 were diagnosed as having hepatitis, "for an astronomical rate of 12,000 per 100,000." Expert witnesses agreed that this could not have been by chance...
Died. John Gamble Kirkwood, 52, Chemistry Department chairman at Yale University, who developed a new method of separating blood proteins, at 28 won the American Chemical Society's Langmuir award in pure chemistry; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
...award, which consists of a gold and silver medal and a stipend of $5000, was initiated in 1796 for the purpose of encouraging and honoring outstanding discoveries in the area of physics then known as "heat and light." Previous winners include Enrico Fermi, Edwin Langmuir, and Thomas Edison...