Word: scientists
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...chemistry course taught by John Edsall, an expert in proteins. Edsall soon took Anderson under his wing, as author Larry Thompson recounts in Correcting the Code, a forthcoming book about the pioneers of gene therapy. At one of Edsall's seminars, Anderson became intrigued by a visiting British scientist's talk about the hemoglobin molecule, which transports oxygen in the bloodstream. A thought occurred to Anderson, and he blurted it out. "If you could determine its structure," he reasoned out loud, "then you could do the same with sickle hemoglobin and determine what the defect is." And because that structure...
...British scientist cut him off. "What a stupid thing to say," he chided. "This is a serious scientific session." Anderson was humiliated, but as he slunk out after the session, John Edsall came by. "Interesting idea," he said, and walked away...
...Gary D. Alpert, a scientist at the Department of Environmental Health and Safety for Harvard University, said the squirrel was trapped to prevent it from eating the bark of a tree...
However, the dispute did not end there. According to Tabin, Philip W. Ingham, a senior scientist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the head of the third research team, did not like the name because in England Sonic is slang for "groovy" and "naming something Sonic made him sick." But he, too, eventually agreed to the name...
...culinary delights such as handmade Swedish chocolate and cheese puffs, Richard J. Roberts, the joint discoverer of "split genes" and the co-winner of the prize in medicine and physiology, said that he hadn't grasped the full extent of the honor. It was difficult for even a scientist of his magnitude to completely fathom the significance of the laurels bestowed upon...