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Huber, who was awarded the 1988 Nobel prize in Chemistry, is the director of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Biochemie in Martinsried, Germany...
...willful one--and, as with all machines, it should be possible to extend the warranty. "There is no evidence we know of that human life expectancy is anywhere close to its ultimate limit," says James Vaupel, a Duke University demographer and the soon-to-be director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, "if there is an ultimate limit...
...knowledge of hormonal structure gained from this research made possible the development of the birth-control pill. A Nazi law forced Butenandt to decline his Nobel Prize, which he finally received in 1949. After the war, he helped rebuild Germany's scientific community as head of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. DIED. THOMAS MAYNE, 93, Australian industrial chemist who invented the Milo chocolate malt drink that is a staple in Asian and Australian households; in Sydney. Working for the Swiss food giant Nestle, Mayne spent four years experimenting before he perfected a recipe for the Milo powder mix that...
...layer of gold." There is a frontier spirit in these fast-growing intellectual boom-towns that attracts job seekers with a taste for adventure. Calcutta-born Uttam Surana, an ambitious young biologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, turned down an offer from Germany's venerable Max Planck Institute to go to Singapore. "When you work with big people, you get overshadowed by their thinking," says Surana. "Here you can think your own thoughts...
Nusslein-Volhard, the director of genetics at the Max Planck Institute, has done groundbreaking research on the embryos of fruit flies...