Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first antibiotic ever isolated by Nobel Prizewinner Selman Waksman was actinomycin. And just as Dr. Waksman hoped, the drug made strong medicine. It killed many man-killing microbes; unfortunately, it acted like a mankiller as well. It turned out to be a cytotoxin, a cell poison with the strange selective trick of attacking some cells more than others. So virulent that one milligram could kill a large chicken, actinomycin seemed far too dangerous ever to try on humans. Last week in Rome, pleasantly surprised, Dr. Waksman told the International Congress of Microbiology that German scientists have finally taken the sting...
Meanwhile, in West Germany's Bayer Institute for Experimental Pathology, other researchers read his reports on the drug's selective toxin. Directed by another Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Gerhard Domagk, the Germans took up where Waksman left off. Working with fungus cultures, they isolated actinomycin C, a new form of the original antibiotic...
...Mystery of Matter. Matter is common stuff, but the scientists do not know what matter is. The more they dig into the problem, the more confused they get. Dr. Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prizewinner in physics, points out that light can behave as waves and also as particles. So can electrons, protons and larger chunks of matter...
Meanwhile, before last week's sessions broke up, the experts got news of yet another potential medical tool. Nobel Prizewinner Tadeus Reichstein of Basel University announced that he had isolated a powerful adrenal hormone which he provisionally called "electrocortin." Since the newly isolated hormone undoubtedly plays a part in the body's balances. Dr. Hench called electrocortin "the biggest thing" of the congress, but neither he nor Dr. Reichstein would prophesy as to its therapeutic possibilities. Whatever its potentialities in the treatment of arthritis and other diseases, electrocortin will probably not be available in large quantities for some...
...rheumatologists listened with respect to the U.S.'s Dr. Philip S. Hench, who shared a Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery and application of the wonder hormone cortisone. Granting that cortisone is not the "fountain of life" that many sufferers hoped that it would be, Hench inveighed against too much timidity in the use of the drug, which he said had raised "as many false fears as false hopes." In four years' use at the Mayo Clinic, he said, cortisone has proved effective in more than 50% of the thousands of patients receiving it. Moreover, experience...