Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite neat formulas and equations in textbooks, chemistry is still an inexact science. At best, scientists only partly understand some of the turbulent processes that occur during chemical reactions; often they cannot accurately predict the end results. Now a California scientist has devised a method for making chemistry more exact: he mixes chemicals in a computer instead of a test tube...
...entrance fee to her hospital room. She believed that he had cheated her many years before. The preposterousness of the situation dissolves when brother and sister are reconciled in a scene that conveys forcefully the author's tragicomic sense of life. Even Dr. Braun, the scientist, is "bitterly moved" by the "crude circus of feeling"-but not so moved that it prevents him from trying to explain human emotions in molecular and cosmic metaphors...
After breakfast, before the bus tour, one Dow scientist gave a 20-minute lecture on Dow's plastics business -- "growing at a much faster rate than industry as a whole." Sitting through that discourse on the multifarious uses of polystyrene, I realized how Benjamin Braddock must have felt. He, at least, had had the good fortune of receiving his advice in a single word...
...Nirenberg, then an obscure young scientist at the National Institutes of Health, provided the biological Rosetta stone. After synthesizing a single helix with half-stairs that were the equivalent of only one of DNA's nucleotides-adenine (A)-he added it to a solution containing all 20 amino acids. Only one protein was produced in the solution. It consisted entirely of a chain of amino-acid molecules called phenylalanine. Thus, Nirenberg concluded, a three-letter code word made up of adenine nucleotides (AAA) was nature's instruction to the cell to use phenylalanine in building a protein...
...flowing medieval robes. It is Faust, and as usual he is pulling at his beard and pondering the mysteries of life. But there is something else. His study is not filled with the customary books. The room is no philosopher's retreat, but the laboratory of a medical scientist. Two operating tables stand in the shadows, and on one of them lies a corpse. Stealthily, two grave robbers arrive with yet another body. As Faust takes the clammy wrist of the fresh cadaver in his hand and sings his first word, "Rien!" (Nothing), it becomes clear that Gounod...