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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Dr. Charles Herbert Best, 79, co-discoverer of insulin; of a ruptured abdominal aorta suffered after learning that his son Alexander, 46, had died of a heart attack; in Toronto. In 1921 Best and the late Sir Frederick Banting began working on Banting's theory that the then fatal disease diabetes could be treated with a hormone from an animal pancreas. Holed up eight weeks in their lab, the two isolated insulin. Best later devised a method of drying and storing blood serum and pioneered development of the drugs histamine, heparin and choline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 10, 1978 | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore, 91, indomitable British seaman who distinguished himself in two world wars; in Wateringbury, England. Moore won the Distinguished Service Order as a young navigator for destroyer flotillas at the Battle of Jutland in World War I. But his finest hour came in April 1944, when, as a vice admiral, he directed a crippling aircraft carrier attack on Hitler's last remaining giant battleship, the 45,000-ton Tirpitz, as it lay in a Norwegian fjord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1978 | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...DIED. Sir Roy Harrod, 78, noted English economist, and disciple and definitive biographer (in 1951) of John Maynard Keynes; in Holt, Norfolk, England. A student of Keynes' at Cambridge, Harrod forged a brilliant career that encompassed teaching at Oxford University from 1921 to 1967 and serving on Sir Winston Churchill's private staff during World War II. He was knighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1978 | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

EARLY IN FEBRUARY 1976, Bob wrote a letter to Jim, and mailed it along with the picture in the box above, to "Sir James K. Bredar IX, Mathews Hall #30." In part the letter read...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

4One is reminded of a salacious anecdote, probably apocryphal, involving Sir Isaac Newton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Note Worthy | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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