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...Caltech's Chemist Linus Pauling, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on molecular structure, reported that the DNA molecule has a helical (spiral-staircase) structure. Later that year, James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick in England went a step farther. DNA, they said, is a double helix with two spirally rising chains of linked atomic groups and a series of horizontal members, like steps, connecting the two spirals. This molecular model, deduced mostly from X-ray diffraction photos, seemed complex and unlikely, but geneticists rejoiced when they heard about it. It was just what they" needed...
...will continue the series this Tuesday and Thursday with lectures on "The Weak Interactions" (molecular binding forces), and on Tuesday and Thursday of next week on "Many Body Problems...
...Charlie Wilson's New Look lacked forward vision. He had little if any use for the basic research that makes possible the weapons of the future. Why is the grass green and the sky blue? Why do fried potatoes turn brown? What is the molecular secret of life itself? The answers could not shoot and therefore should not be bought with defense dollars. Why would anyone want to go to the moon? An outer-space satellite could not destroy a target and should therefore have a relatively low priority. In 1957, for example, Wilson's research and development...
Like all young Hungarian scientists in those days. Teller took his Ph.D. in Germany (University of Leipzig). When Hitler took power in 1933, Teller was at Gottingen, pursuing research in the molecular structure of matter. With the anti-Semitism that darkened his childhood raging about him again, he eagerly grabbed at a British rescue mission's offer of a lecturer's post at London University. Two years later he moved on to the U.S. to take up a physics professor's duties at the District of Columbia's George Washington University...
...Biophysics Laboratory of the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital have made the first isolation of a low molecular weight protein from the cortex of the horse kidney...