Word: perrins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Jean Perrin. 71, refugee French physicist, 1926 winner of the Nobel Prize; in Manhattan. A onetime associate of the Curies, famed for his studies of molecular physics, he announced in 1938 that he had discovered evidence of the existence of an element heavier than element 92 (uranium), called it transuranium...
Sulfadiazine seems to be "rather non-toxic." It is "very promising at the moment and may prove to be the next step in the sulfonamide ladder." (Last week Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins, top-flight sulfa specialist, announced that this drug will be on the market by early fall. Said he: "I have good reason to believe it will supplant all sulfa drugs now being used...
...conmen and bunco artists, Steve the Swindler was regarded as especially expert in talking himself into funds and out of trouble. He ranked with Grand Central Pete and Paper Collar Joe, who were tops in bilking the rubes; for a time Steve Dutton was partner of the old master, Perrin Sumner, who was known in the Gay '90s as The Great American Identifier, for reasons lost to history...
Last week it looked as though the problem of sulfa poisoning was solved. Dr. Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins reported a new, innocuous relative of sulfanilamide: sulfadiazine. A compound of sulfanilamide and part of vitamin B, the new drug, which is swallowed with water or injected, turns the same trick sulfanilamide does, plays no tricks on the patient...
...Eleanor Albert Bliss, 41, worked with Dr. Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins in bringing sulfanilamide to the U. S. She is also one of the chief authorities in the newer sulfa-drugs, is known as one of the best-dressed women in Baltimore...