Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radioactive tracers, which have revolutionized medical and biological research, are now going to work in industry. This week Arthur D. Little, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, told how it used the tracer technique to solve a steel problem...
...Research in an Orange Grove. Last week the Huntington Library and Art Gallery published a report summing up its first 20 years, and the Huntington was getting set to welcome a new director: Canadian-born John Ewart Wallace Sterling, 41, ex-football player, CalTech historian and part-time Los Angeles radio news commentator...
...believer in hunches, Dr. Shortt tackled the puzzle with conventional research methods. In a laboratory near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, he shut a rhesus monkey into a cage with 500 malaria-carrying mosquitoes (previous experiments had used 20 to 100). Just to make sure that the monkey would hatch a really bad case, he killed the mosquitoes, made a solution out of them, and injected it into the monkey's muscles and chest. No other monkey had ever been so swamped with malaria. After seven days Dr. Shortt performed a careful autopsy. Said he: "I went over every conceivable piece...
Professor Coon returned recently from an expedition to Morocco with the American School of Prehistoric Research. The explorers discovered traces of animals which thrived in Africa 150,000 years...
...which unfortunately was not accepted for honors credit in Biochemical Sciences. Something similar to it is being offered this summer, and if continued might very well serve as a groundwork for the gradual building up of Biochemical Sciences into a fine, well-organized preparation for medical practice and research...