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...Death. Son of a Swiss professor of pedagogy, Daniel Bovet recalls: "We children were guinea pigs for testing father's educational theories. It was wonderful." As a boy. he grew mushrooms in the family cellar, cultivated molds in his mother's fruit jars. In 1929 the famed Pasteur Institute of Paris offered Biologist Bovet a job. By 1932 news reached Paris that Germany's Gerhard Domagk had found that a dye product, prontosil could be used to kill bacteria that cause common infections. Bovet and his colleagues at the Pasteur found that prontosil was "a clumsy, complex...
...Nitti. daughter of the exiled anti-Fascist ex-Premier of Italy, Francesco Nitti. "I proposed immediately," says Bovet. "It was a lightning chemical reaction." Since then, with time out for three children, Filomena Bovet-Nitti has helped her husband in all his work. In 1947, Bovet moved from the Pasteur Institute to Rome's Istituto, which was able to offer him better facilities. The husband-wife team's current preoccupation: the chemistry of the brain, especially as it is influenced by mental illness and by drugs such as the ataraxics. For, believes Biochemist Bovet, the key to mental...
...Drawbacks. A second strong plea for the vaccine is.made in BCG Vaccination Against Tuberculosis (Little, Brown; $7.50) by the University of Illinois' Dr. Sol Rosenthal. With the help of the Pasteur Institute's famed bacteriologist Dr. Camille Guérin, 84, TB Fighter Rosenthal records the disappointments attending early efforts to perfect a TB vaccine, then the surprising success of France's late Dr. Albert Calmette, with Guérin collaborating, in attenuating a strain of tubercle bacilli taken from human patients by growing them in cattle. The trouble was that the vaccine, now universally known...
Died. Frederick George Novy, M.D., 92, famed bacteriologist and faculty member of the University of Michigan from 1886 to 1935, dean of the medical school 1930-35, who studied in Europe under Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, in 1888 helped establish the first U.S. bacteriological laboratory; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...tour, impudent, versatile Sacha roughed his way through eleven French schools ("I knew all the dates in French history, but, unhappily, not what happened on them"), turned out his first hit comedy at 19, went on to write more than 130 plays, ranging from semiserious portrayals of great men (Pasteur, Mozart) to whipped-cream farces (L'Illusionniste), in the '30s added films (The Story of a Cheat). In his acting, he epitomized the wry, shoulder-shrugging French bon vivant, but bitterly offended countrymen by continuing to act and write under the Nazi occupation ("I didn't want...