Word: micro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded last week to Dr. Charles Nicolle, director of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis! He got it for his work on infectious fevers. particularly those caused by micro-organ isms so minute that they filter through the pores of unglazed porcelain...
Chiefly on account of the many germs that may cause lung infections (pneumonia) the devising of an efficacious serum is very difficult. Too many of the micro-organisms are vastly elusive. But Dr. Park has made considerable progress, hopes for more...
Wildiers discovered over 20 years ago that the micro-organisms of yeast will grow rapidly in beer wort, but not in artificial media. He called the unknown agent of growth "bios" in a book called La Cellule. In 1916 Dr. Williams suggested that the substance previously called Vitamin B was identical with Wildiers' "bios." Extracts of some substances known to be rich in B stimulate yeast growth, and many substances have been tested for yeast stimulation as a means of measuring their B content...
...from a standpoint of efficiency. A bricklaying contractor for a number of years, himself, he made an intensive study of this art, with the result that the rate of bricklaying was doubled. Mr. Gilbreth has investigated almost every branch of work with the same result. He has invented the micro-motion and chronocyclegraph processes for determining the fundamental units and methods of industrial education. Before a special background fitted with a dial to record the time element, Mr. Gilbreth's expert assistant photographs the best workers in each trade to illustrate their methods. At 4.45 today at the Hotel Brunswick...
...Streptococcus-a genus of micro-organisms which do not move but remain grouped in long chains, producing pus and causing pneumonia, erysipelas...