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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paprika & Disguises. Szent-Gyorgyi, now 55, grey-haired and dynamic, won his Nobel Prize in 1937 for isolating vitamin C (ascorbic acid) from the plants of one of Hungary's favorite vegetables, paprika. As Nazi influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for underground anti-Nazi work. One of his cloak & dagger jobs was carrying a secret letter to the British legation in Istanbul on the pretense of having to give a scientific lecture in Turkey. When the Gestapo got too close on his trail, he went completely underground disguised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Muscle Man | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Much more research and many more carefully stained slides will be needed before doctors find a clue to the cure of eclampsia. But a clue to the cause is a big start. Eclampsia is such a mysterious ailment that it has baffled doctors for 4,000 years and has been nicknamed the "disease of theories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Happy Accident | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Citing research by Manhattan's Dr. Morton Biskind, Medical Columnist Albert Deutsch contends that certain cattle diseases, as well as Virus X among humans, may be traceable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Army's biological warfare research center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Cancer research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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