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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chamberlain, by means of his work at California, proved the existence of the anti-proton, a sub-atomic particle with a charge opposite to a normal proton. Using California's huge particle accelerator, the 39-year-old scientist worked with Segre and developed new methods to prove the existence of the particle...
...bloodstream, had shown that each had two kidneys, and separate bile ducts. But blood was crossing the bridge between the twins. The important question: How much? Injected radioactive iodine 131 gave the answer through a scintillation counter: a forbidding 43%. The big remaining question was whether there were normal and separate blood-vessel connections to the liver. By operation's eve the twins were amazingly healthy, with no indication of heart trouble (therefore, no blueness). They ate voraciously, and poked at each other so vigorously that they had to be fitted with mittens...
...soon clear that the twins' livers were joined. But before this problem could be faced, the surgeons separated the rib cages, found that the hearts were surrounded by a fused sac. They cut it so that Jeanett's heart had a normal sac; Denett's was open until they stitched it shut. Major blood vessels to the liver proved to be separate, but in cutting the bridge dividing the two organs, no fewer than 75 minor vessels had to be cut, and their bleeding stanched. Separated at last, each twin had her own quartet working independently...
...form of RNA. Brooklyn-born Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 41, graduated from the City College of New York at 19. Working for his M.D. at the University of Rochester, he picked up hepatitis, put the experience to good use by publishing his first paper ("The Occurrence of Jaundice in Otherwise Normal Medical Students") while still a student. Explaining his year at N.Y.U. to learn about enzymes from Ochoa, Kornberg says: "I got tired of feeding things into one end of an experiment and watching something come out of the other without understanding what goes on in the middle." Besides mothering their...
Missiles & Rails. The booming construction industry and the railroads are little better off. Builders estimate that it will take 60 to 90 days of renewed steel production before normal deliveries are resumed. Says Robert V. Tishman, executive vice president of Tishman Realty & Construction Co.: "With very few exceptions, all construction jobs in the initial stages, where steel is a big factor, have been stopped." The strike slowed construction of vital defense projects, such as the Air Force's new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launching base at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, threatened Atlas ICBM deliveries. Military projects need...