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"The major achievement isn't so much in the synthesis of gibberellin as in the aggregate of ingenious techniques that are developed in the course of the synthesis," Dudley R. Herschbach, chairman of the Chemistry Department, said yesterday.
Transplanted Easterners who started collaborating while they were still teenagers in Los Angeles, Leiber and Stoller, who are now both 45, shared an uncanny gift for crossing musical bloodlines. Both loved black rhythm-and-blues music, and could write it with such glancing wit and thorough funk that their songs...
DIED. Vincent du Vigneaud, 77, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his synthesis of two pituitary hormones; of a stroke; in White Plains, N. Y. Chairman of the biochemistry department at Cornell University Medical College, Du Vigneaud headed a team of scientists who succeeded in 1946 in...
YET ONE OF the great themes of American literature is the subversion of normalcy, by presenting the gothic element in American life (Poe), the hungering force of a dusky past (Hawthorne), or the explosive curse of vice (Faulkner). Similarly, when we look closely at Jones's life, neither it nor...
A synthesis which transcends both the rationalist and romanticist poles must necessarily challenge the masculinist social order itself.... This is the most radical vision but there are no human alternatives. The Market, with its financial abstractions, deformed science, and obsession with dead things--must be pushed back to the margins...