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Your reviewer writes under the name of F.T.R. I take it, therefore, that piece was written by Frank T. Rogan, a thoughtful, sophisticated writer whose articles I always look forward to with the greatest interest. Yet in this review, even Mr. R. shows himself painfully incapable of coping with the...
Today Konrad Bloch becomes the third Harvard scientist in four years to receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. Bloch's work on the synthesis of cholesterol in the living cell has taken almost 25 years and has occupied virtually all of his professional attention. Working independently, he and...
Bloch and Lynen did not collaborate formally, although they did correspond, and have met at nearly a dozen conferences. "There has been continuous interaction and supplementation," Block says, "but we have each run our own laboratory and conducted our own experiments." Recently, Lynen has begun to investigate the role of...
Both elements are inferentially Fellini, and Fellini labors hugely to reconcile the contradiction. In II Bidone he fails: the showman dissolves into the infant, the infant becomes a sort of devil in diapers. But the failure is not final. In 8½ the opposites attain a higher synthesis: in the...
Woodward has been working at the University for 27 years and has developed a new approach to the synthesis of such natural substances as cholesterol, cortisone and chlorophyll. He presently gives no formal courses, but holds occasional seminars.