Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the research projects which are always under way in the work-rooms of the Fogg Museum, the latest concerns the 11th century mosaics of the mosque of Santa Sophia at Istanboul. Freed in the last five years from their covering of Turkish plaster and decoration, these have proved to be the work of a master school, surpassing all the provincial mosaics which have hitherto been known. The Museum is now devising a method for making copies of them, as a record for students and an inspiration to artists, and the workshop has been conducting experiments on three different lines...
...ethyl alcohol, for example, is 46 units; * of sodium chloride (salt), 58.5; of the hormone secretin, 5,000; of hemoglobin, about 68,000; of the thyroid substance thyroglobulin, about 700,000. Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley and his associates at the Rockefeller Institute have crystallized the virus which causes mosaic disease in tobacco, found that it weighs 17,000,000 units (TIME, Nov.15). A rabbit wart virus was found to weigh 20,000,000 units, a horse encephalitis virus 25,000,000. Even these monster molecules are so small that they pass through the pores of a fine filter...
...Colans' rabbi, Talmudist A. E. Abramovitz, gave no better help: "The Mosaic law does not deal with such problems. At the time the Bible was written surgery was not advanced to the extent that it is today, and such problems did not occur. ... It is my opinion that we should let nature take its course. Where men cannot correct, let God make His own decision...
Conclusion: "Is emotion a magic product, or is it a physiologic process which depends on an anatomic mechanism? . . . The evidence presented is ... suggestive of such a mechanism as a unit within the larger architectural mosaic of the brain...
...removed. Finally Rockefeller Institute's John Howard Northrop isolated a phage, showed it to be a protein with the catalyzing properties of an enzyme. These researches convinced many a bacteriologist that phages are nonliving protein molecules, like Wendell Meredith Stanley's crystallized virus which causes tobacco mosaic disease in plants...