Word: molecular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Wald, professor of Biology, hailed the new program as "a recognition that modern biology has reached a molecular level and demands a basic training in physics, mathematics, and chemistry in addition to biology." He explained that the urgent need to make room for these basic science courses "makes it necessary for us to restrict considerably the biology requirements...
...Fred MacMurray) is a small-college chemistry instructor, known to his students as Neddie the Nut, who "cracks the antigravity problem" by producing a substance he calls "flubber"* - lab gab for flying rubber. Flubber is a sort of daffy taffy that "generates its own energy" by a process of "molecular exchange." Sounds fishy? Works fine. When the professor drops a flubber ball on the floor, it bounces back to the height it was dropped from, goes even higher on the second bounce, hits the ceiling on the third, and on the 50th would probably sail to the moon. The professor...
Pappenheimer has endeavored to analyze the action of the toxin right down to the molecular level, in order to determine the ultimate biochemical reasons for its destructive potency. This problem has taken him into many fields. From a commercial laboratory he learned that traces of iron reduce the yield of toxin. He was able to determine that the production of a pink pigment called coproporphyrin was similarly diminished by iron. This discovery in turn led him back to work he had done as a graduate student...
...This World. But no matter how profound the significance of the work being done by the physicists, the molecular biologists and the practitioners of a dozen other pure sciences, it is the "science" of space that is of most absorbing interest to the peoples of the world. Man's reach toward the heavens is indeed the stuff that dreams are made of?and some scientists are inclined to scoff at it for precisely that reason. But others, of equal stature and equal dedication to scientific truth, not only share in the out-of-this-world dreams but are devoting their...
...good questions today?" For a brief period Rabi (rhymes with hobby) did try the workaday world outside the laboratory?he analyzed furniture polish and mothers' milk; he ran a Brooklyn newspaper until it failed?"then came the vision, I found physics and myself." His experiments in molecular physics won a Nobel Prize in 1944, were vital to U.S. atomic research. Now a part-time professor at Columbia University, Rabi argues that all scientists ought to be "oddballs." Their lives, he says, leave no room for such bourgeois considerations as suburban homes or Madison Avenue clothes: "Once...