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Genentech, a pioneer in daring DNA research, goes public...
Kuffler, a pioneer in the study of neurobiology and the founder of Harvard's academic department of neurobiology in 1967, was born in 1913 and received his medical degree from the University of Vienna...
...perhaps the most characteristic American element in all this, and the most moving as well, is that astonished moment when the reckless clarifier carefully looks over his audience (or courtroom or stationery or press conference) anc envisions being born again. O hopeful pioneer. All he has to do is say a few words and the world will be new. He feels better already. -By Roger Rosenblatt
...terrible to think that nobody ever asked John von Neuman--the real pioneer of computers who invented the stored program concept--'Were you interested in extending the capacity of the human brain, or just in inventing a great machine?' As a historian, I'm very interested in these questions," Cohen said...
DIED. Sol Lesser, 90, movie pioneer who produced more than 100 films and conceived the idea for a rating system that culminated in the current G, PG, R and X movie designations to guide audiences; in Hollywood. Son of a nickelodeon operator, Lesser was responsible for such features as the 1922 Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan, and the Academy Award-winning 1951 documentary Kon-Tiki...