Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oswald Theodore Avery, 70-year-old bacteriologist at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; for his 30-year study of pneumonia germs (pneumococci) which has helped reduce U.S. pneumonia deaths from...
...good ship Atlantis, an oceanographic research vessel, was back in Woods Hole, Mass, last week, after two months of seagoing mountaineering. Purpose of the voyage: to study the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the submerged mountain range that divides the Atlantic Ocean-from Iceland almost to Antarctica. The range breaks the surface at only a few points (the Azores, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha). But if the Atlantic were drained dry, it would be one of the world's most spectacular ranges, with several peaks 20,000 feet above the ocean floor...
...predominance of the sciences at Cal is no accident; as shrewd Bob Sproul well knows, it is much easier to persuade legislators of the tangible benefits of research in plastics or potatoes than of the value of knowing about Yeats and Keats. That attitude is not peculiar to legislators; it is shared by many of the faculty, by the overwhelming majority of California undergraduates-and by most Americans. Remarked one history major last week: "You're made to feel that if you aren't taking both physics and chemistry, you're wasting valuable space...
...week Columbia University announced that two of its young scientists, Professor Willis Lamb, 34, and Robert Retherford, 35, had knocked a prop from under the Dirac theory. Their experiment, said Columbia's Nobel Physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi, revealed new facts which will be of "inestimable value in future research...
...Research for the 1775 model took four years of the time of Rupert B. Little '35, who delved into the archives, State House, Middlesex County Courthouse, and City Hall, in order to complete plans for 250 houses and barns which make up the Revolutionary era scene...