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...intricate processes of giving people immunity against disease, instead of waiting to cure them after they have been stricken (gamma globulin and vaccines for polio are the latest examples), medical science has a relatively new name: immunochemistry. Last week judges for the Lasker Awards recognized its importance by picking as one of 1953's winners Dr. Michael Heidelberger, 65, of New York City, for "decisive contributions to mankind in developing a new subscience. the precise measuring tool of immunochemistry...
Immunization itself is not new, but more than a century after Edward Jenner discovered vaccination, immunology was still largely, according to Lasker judges, ''a descriptive science which applied bizarre name's to odd properties of ill defined or hypothetical substances." Doctors knew that there were such things as antigens (mostly proteins and highfalutin sugars called polysaccharides). and that these could stimulate the human system to produce antibodies. These were important in vaccines and protective serums, and also in tests like the Wassermann. But doctors did not know whether to use a drop or a bucketful because they...
...Other Lasker winners: ¶ Nobelman Hans Adolf Krebs. biochemist (TIME. Nov. 2). ¶Biologist George Wald, 46 of Harvard, for exploring the chemistry of vision. ¶State Health Officer Felix J. Underwood, 71, of Mississippi, for expanding public-health services. ¶Bacteriologist Earle B. Phelps (who died in June) for pioneering in sanitary science...
...Paul Dudley White in Boston this week went a special $1,000 Lasker Award for three decades of worldwide pioneering in the study and treatment of the heart. Accepting it, Dr. White made no mention of the whale. He went back to the ancient virtues. In this push-button age, he said, man is overeating and pampering himself. He should walk to work, ride a bicycle for exercise (as Dr. White still does), shovel snow up to the age of 70 or 80 if his heart is sound, and not be afraid of stairs even if his heart...
...subdue the influenza virus put the finishing touches on some experiments at the University of Wisconsin, then flew to California to check on virus research at Berkeley. Soon he will go back to his own laboratories in Melbourne. Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet came to the U.S. to receive a Lasker Award and to tell fellow virologists what he has found out Down Under...