Word: pasteur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explain the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or why it mainly struck homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Nor could they begin to cure it. Six months ago came news of a breakthrough: scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md., and the Pasteur Institute in Paris had discovered a virus that seemed to be closely related to, if not the cause of, the epidemic. The finding was hailed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler as "the triumph of science over a dread disease...
...French team is headed by Dr. Luc Montagnier of the renowned Pasteur Institute. In interviews with the U.S. press, Montagnier described a virus he and his colleagues had found in the blood of patients with the swollen lymph nodes and flu-like symptoms that characterize the early stage of AIDS. Like Gallo, the Pasteur researchers reportedly found signs of the virus in 80% to 90% of blood samples from AIDS patients. Both research groups affirm that the bugs they have found closely resemble the cancer-causing virus discovered by Gallo four years ago. The two groups suspect they have found...
...gets the credit for the AIDS virus, there is no doubt that Gallo laid the groundwork for the discovery with his earlier research into cancer viruses. Says French Immunologist Daniel Zagurey of the University of Paris: "Without Gallo, there wouldn't have been any work on this at Pasteur. Their research is based on his initial discovery." Gallo's quest for the cause of cancer began in childhood. As a boy of 14, in Waterbury, Conn., he watched his younger sister die of leukemia. The memory is still vivid: "She was an emaciated, jaundiced child with a mouth...
...retired president of M.I.T.: The five indispensable books are Darwin's Origin of Species, Freeman Dyson's Disturbing the Universe, Ernst Mayr's Growth of Biological Thought, the works of Thomas Huxley, James Watson's Double Helix, René Vallery-Radot's Life of Pasteur, Eric Ashby's Technology and the Academics: An Essay on Universities and the Scientific Revolution and Sir WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams' The Education...
...French Revolution. The most illustrious is the Ecole Normale Supérieure, which was founded in 1794 to "teach morals and shape the hearts of young republicans for the practice of private and public virtue." Only some 400 students a year are accepted. Among its graduates: Louis Pasteur, Jean-Paul Sartre, Georges Pompidou. Prior to World War II the school also produced such socialist luminaries as Jean Jaures and Léon Blum...