Word: ultraviolet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nuworld got its start in 1949 when Dr. Stanley Knight, a bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin, tried using ultraviolet light to irradiate cheese-starting materials, the bacteria cultures that are curdled in milk to give cheeses their individual flavors. Knight turned his findings over to University of Minnesota scientists, who began the job of making a new cheese. Their base was the shepherd boy's familiar mold, now called Penicillium roquejortii...
...scientists now produce new cheeses with the flick of an ultraviolet-ray machine? Cautioned the University of Wisconsin's Dr. William Hendrickson: "The chances are one in a million that you'd hit it right if you started out to create a new starting material for cheese." His conclusion: Knight, like the shepherd boy, was "darn lucky...
...from Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital, headed by Dr. Albert Milzer. complained that they had followed Dr. Salk's published directions faithfully, and the formaldehyde had failed to kill all the virus. On the other hand, said Dr. Milzer, they had no trouble killing the virus with ultraviolet light, and then had made an effective vaccine...
...Caddy (Paramount) is about the best that can be expected these days from Comics Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, a couple of wonderfully silly geese. They are at their funniest in the chummy atmosphere of a nightclub, where Dean can spread on his ultraviolet charm, and where Jerry's back teeth are as near to a customer's hand as the sugar lumps...
Covering nearly 4,000 sq. ft. of wall, the murals are the product of an unusual artistic technique. First, blown-up pictures were projected on the walls. Then, after brushing in a white undercoat, artists painted with fluorescent pigments under black (ultraviolet) light...