Word: planck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are bits of information about the less exalted that illustrate just how closely Washington was tied to Cambridge for those three years. When, at the time of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Revolutionary Council needed a manifesto of its intention for a non-Communist Cuba, John Planck, former professor of Government, and William Barnes, assistant dean of the Law School, were asked to provide suggestions. When a dangerously hard-line Berlin policy seemed to be taking hold in 1961, a Harvard all-star team moved in. On the diplomatic front, "Abram Chayes, Carl Kaysen and I got together...
...Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. Bloch's work on the synthesis of cholesterol in the living cell has taken almost 25 years and has occupied virtually all of his professional attention. Working independently, he and Feodor Lynen, the co-winner of the prize and director of the Max Planck Institute for Cell Chemistry in Munich, have puzzled out the 36-step process by which acetic acid is transformed into Cholesterol. Cholesterol is known to be the raw material of the sex hormones; some researchers believe that excess cholesterol causes heart disease. While this theory has not been confirmed...
...texts as straw men to be knocked down with a pat phrase and a smirk for the stupidity of those who don't agree with us." Kreyche's goal was "a classroom in which professor and student can move easily from Socrates to Sartre, from Plato to Planck, from Aristotle to Ayer...
...improve the process, Bhattacharya moved to the Max Planck Institute for Animal Breeding at Hagen, Germany, where he went to work under the direction of Zoologist Gham Gottschewski. Using rabbits, which are not only cheaper than cattle but much quicker to breed, he inseminated thousands of does with sperm that had been allowed to settle under varying conditions. His early results were not promising, but after three years of experimentation he hit on a winning combination. He mixed rabbit sperm with egg yolk and glycol, and stored the solution for twelve hours in a refrigerator at slightly above the freezing...
Chemist Robert Havemann is a tortured German intellectual who embraced Communism before 1933 as a way to oppose Nazism. Then a topflight scientist at Berlin's famed Kaiser-Wilhelm (now Max Planck) Institute, he was saved from a Nazi death sentence when the German army argued that he could be more useful with his head on than off. As a result, he did chemical research for the Wehrmacht during World War II while locked up in Brandenburg Prison. After the war Communist Havemann became one of East Germany's star scholars, won the Patriotic Order of Merit from...