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Assistant curators insisted that the new label had nothing to do with the remarks of Micro-Chemist Toch, the painting had been reassigned to Drost (a Rembrandt pupil) several months ago when the picture was cleaned...
...member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: $1,000 and the highly esteemed diploma given biennially for cancer research by Dr. Sofie A. Nordhoff-Jung, 64, assistant in gynecology at Georgetown University. Dr. Carrel has devised methods of growing living cells in glass flasks where he can take micro-cinemas of their life. Results have been fundamental revelations on cell physiology, normal and malignant...
...himself not a physician but a chemist and was studying fermentations when he made his monumental discovery. Thus it was left for one of his followers, Koch, a medical man. to identify certain disease germs. Considerably later Ehrlich, working with colors as an index of the susceptibility of micro-organisms to drugs, succeeded in formulating one invaluable remedy. These investigators deserve full credit for their contributions to our knowledge of pathogenic organisms, but neither is to be compared with the great scientist who originated the conception...
...Micro-Sticks & Stones. A graphic phrase, "micro-sticks and micro-stones," the U. S. Weather Bureau's William Jackson Humphreys coined to emphasize how technically impure is the air man breathes. Always in the atmosphere are bits of rock, vegetable fibre, litter, salt (over oceans), sulphuric acid (from soft coal chimneys and volcanoes), nitric acid (from lightning), meteoritic ash. The bronchial tubes get rid of most of such debris with almost no harm to the body...
...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...