Word: macro
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...virus, found to contain carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen like thousands of organic compounds, could now be contemplated as a huge protein molecule -a "macro-molecule." Was it alive or not alive? No known living thing is crystalline in form. It would be fantastic to imagine a crystalline pig. Yet the virus showed the ability to reproduce itself in great quantities when stimulated by contact with a plant. Thus the Princeton chemist had discovered an apparent bridge between living and nonliving matter. This was a discovery of Nobel Prize calibre...