Word: pasteurize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People in Paris were coming down with something like parrot fevert-but they had not caught it from parrots. Dr. Pierre Lepine, the Pasteur Institute's virus expert, spent two years tracking down the culprit. Last week he had it: the plump Parisian pigeon...
...bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, two doctors of France's Pasteur Institute, who first tested it on calves...
...Science and Common Sense" is about as non-technical as could be asked. Conant avoids complicated scientific details by making his points with basic cases in the growth of the experimental sciences, such as Boyle's work with pneumatics, the discovery of the nature of combustion, and Pasteur's work with fermentation. These cases have the added advantage of illustrating Conant's definition of science: "An interconnected series of concepts and conceptual schemes that have developed as a result of experimentation and observation and are fruitful of further experimentation and observations...
...long searched in vain for a medical weapon that would work against TB with the sure efficacy of, say, the smallpox vaccine against smallpox. The best they have found so far is the vaccine called BCG, which was first tried out on calves in 1908 at France's Pasteur Institute...
...under President Charles William Eliot, another great expansion was prepared and plans were drawn up for the present buildings on Longwood Avenue at the head of Avenue Louis Pasteur. The cost of land, construction, furnishing, and providing a suitable endowment for the four laboratory buildings and one administration hall was estimated at $5,000,000. Money poured in generously, with large donations from John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, David Spears '74, Collis P. Huntington, and other individuals and groups...