Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullmann) have been selected by some national publication as a kind of "ideal couple" for a feature story on successful marriages. The superficially earnest lady interviewer asks the usual questions, some of them posed as answers. Johan is 42 and a behavioral scientist. Marianne is 32 and a divorce lawyer. They have a lovely home, two lovely daughters, lovely meshing temperaments. Fill in all the blanks with lovely...
...mottoes of a scientist that if something seems too good to be true, there is a high probability that it is not true. Few scientists appreciate the aptness of this more than Dr. Albert Sabin, 68, developer of the live-virus polio vaccine. Eighteen months ago, Sabin declared triumphantly that he and a colleague had found convincing evidence that the ubiquitous herpes simplex viruses, which cause cold sores and genital infections, also cause human cancers. Since then, Sabin has been unable to reproduce the earlier laboratory findings. As a result, he is publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy...
...claims created an immediate controversy. But it was not until Sabin decided to recheck their experiments himself that he realized why. He was unable to duplicate the earlier results. His failure, he says, left him no other choice than to publish a retraction. "I've been a scientist too long not to do it," he said. "If I find something that a colleague and I have reported that I cannot confirm, it's my duty to report...
...determined who first made elements 104 and 105, for which each side has filed claims and names. The Russians are calling 104 "kurchatovium" (after their A-bomb pioneer, Igor Kurchatov) and 105 "niels bohrium" (for the famed Danish physicist). Americans have dubbed 104 "rutherfordium" (after the English scientist Ernest Rutherford) and 105 "hahnian" (for German Chemist Otto Hahn, who discovered nuclear fission...
...scientist at Canada's Ontario Research Foundation has found a convenient way to overcome the microscope's handicap; Physicist Eric J. Chatfield has devised an adapter system that enables the electron-microscope user to get three-dimensional images. His optical stereo, which he developed at a cost of only $25,000-less than the price of a typical electron-microscope-operates on an ingenious yet simple principle reminiscent of Hollywood's experiments with 3-D movies in the 1950s...