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Some of the hopeful new findings were reported last week in a book called Hearing and Deafness: A Guide for Laymen (Murray Hill Books; $5). The authors are a group of topflight experts headed by Dr. Hallowell Davis, longtime Harvard physiologist, now research professor of otolaryngology at St. Louis' Washington University...
...medicine's big mysteries is the bodily process that translates disease into death. One man who has been stubbornly looking for an answer is 43-year-old Dr. Melvin H. Knisely, a gaunt, tall (6 ft. 3) physiologist at the University of Chicago. For 17 years, Dr. Knisely and a squad of co-workers at Chicago and the University of Tennessee have been bending over their microscopes, laboriously studying the circulation of the blood. Last fortnight, Science published their epochal findings...
...that the prize had been "granted with political ends," went to town with a caricature of Dr. Houssay and an attack on the originality and value of his studies of the pituitary gland. "This gland detective," it said, should have been doing something useful like tackling tuberculosis and syphilis. Physiologist Houssay did not reply. He was busy last week getting ready for next month's trip to Stockholm to collect his share ($24,460) of the prize...
Argentina's shy, black-eyed Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay is often referred to as "the world's greatest living physiologist" (TIME, May 5). Medical researchers are also enthusiastic about a gifted pair of biochemists at St. Louis' Washington University: shy Dr. Carl Ferdinand Cori and his redhaired, vivacious wife Gerty. Few scientists were surprised last week when Stockholm announced that Houssay and Cori & Cori had been jointly awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine...
...Europe. Henry entered Harvard Law School in 1862 with no intention of becoming a lawyer. William got his M.D. from Harvard Medical School but never practiced. Later, when he had become the nation's top psychologist, he wrote: "I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality . . . the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave...