Word: phi
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Abstract & Concrete. Gilmore be gan his law career late. He went to Boston Latin and to Yale (where he was a junior Phi Beta Kappa), got a doctorate in Romance languages after writing a dissertation on the 19th century French poet Stéphane Mallarmé that is still quoted by scholars. He became a teacher almost inevitably. "If one takes Romance languages, one teaches," he says. But after four years, "I couldn't stand it any longer." At 29, he went into law "because it seemed an available thing. Soon, however, I began to find it challenging...
After graduating from Swarthmore Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in Greek, he came to Harvard in the fall of 1966 on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to major in modern English literature. Although still protected by his 2-S graduate deferment, Ferber decided then that his religious and non-violent beliefs had matured sufficiently for him to apply for a 1-O deferment as a conscientious objector. He started out strictly legally, "playing the game their way," but circumstances and his own morality soon compelled him to a position outside...
Brel McCoy's own connection with Du Pont began when he worked for the company during summer vacations from college. After graduating from the University of Virginia (Phi Beta Kappa) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (master's degree in chemical engineering), he hired on full time in 1932 as a lowly cellophane-machine operator before advancing into such jobs as chemist, industrial engineer and purchasing agent. He rose through a succession of middle-management jobs, in 1960 became chief of Du Pont's explosives division. The following year he was named vice president and a member...
...learn how an enzyme like DNA polymerase actually organizes nucleotides into DNA molecules. Bio chemist Goulian worked under Korn berg as a postdoctoral fellow, and is now on the faculty of the University of Chicago Medical School. Sinsheimer is an authority on viruses, has specialized in the study of Phi...
...speculates, man may be able to create artificial genes to replace missing ones in persons suffering from genetic diseases. The same technique could have other far-reaching effects. The polyoma virus, which produces a variety of cancers in many animals, is almost identical in size and complexity to Phi X 174. "If one can take the polyoma DNA and modify it in the test tube by implanting alternate genes," says Kornberg, "some of these could prevent the growth of cancer cells...