Word: shurcliff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant met with Sidney Shurcliff, noted Boston landscape architect, yesterday at 4:30 p.m. Shurcliff could not be reached for comment last night...
...microscope, which cost a third of a million dollars to develop and build, is so revolutionary in principle that scientists associated with the project had to start practically from scratch anl develop whole new areas of theory. According to William A. Shurcliff '40, Polaroid physicist who co-ordinated teams of physicists, chemists, and biologists on the project. "We had to throw everything we knew about microscopes out of the window...
Biologists are tremendously excited by the microscope. The variations in color between healthy and diseased cells may lead to a better understanding of the whole life process Shurcliff says the device offers "new eyes to see a whole world...
Finally, there were operational problems. Would the ultraviolet rays and the heat kill the very substances they were trying to probe? Work proceeded slowly at first, but under Shurcliff's guidance, the experts in all the various fields fitted their individual labor together in the final coordination of the project. First use of the microscope came early this spring...