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Five Harvard Nobel Prize winners and a fellow of the College were among seven Boston' citizens presented with the new "Boston medal for distinguished achievement" yesterday...
Honored at a noon luncheon in the War Memorial Auditorium were Harvard's William P. Murphy, John F. Enders, James D. Watson, Edward M. Purcell, Konrad E. Bloch and Charles A. Coolidge '17. The seventh man honored was Charles H. Townes, provost of M.I.T. and 1964 Nobel winner in physics...
Murphy, winner of the 1934 Nobel in medicine, was saluted for his "long and distinguished career as physician, lecturer, teacher, and citizen of Greater Boston." Murphy received his MD from Harvard in 1922 and presently is lecturer on Medicine Emeritus...
Visiting Washington to collect a National Medal of Science for his "contributions to scientific knowledge," Chemist Harold Urey, 71, recalled that when he developed heavy water in 1931 he never dreamed that his discovery would win the Nobel Prize or, for that matter, become a vital ingredient in the making of the atomic bomb. "I thought it might have some practical use," he said, plaintively, "in something like neon signs...
...been boosted by the announcement that Indianapolis' Pitman-Moore Division of the Dow Chemical Co. has now begun to market a one-shot vaccine that is expected to give lifelong immunity. The virus used in the new vaccine is derived from the famed Edmonston strain used by Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist John F. Enders (TIME Cover, Nov. 17, 1961), but new research has added many advantages. When the attenuated virus in Enders' vaccine remained strong enough to give the required immunity, it was also strong enough to give many children what amounted to a slight case of measles, with...