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Word: yokoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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...chemists' skill. Its poison, tetrodotoxin, has proved almost impossible to isolate or identify. But Japanese science has finally turned the trick. For establishing the molecular structure of tetrodotoxin, Professors Kyosuke Tsuda of Tokyo University, Yoshimasa Hirata of Nagoya University, Isamu Nitta of Kwansei Gakuin University, and Akira Yokoo of Okayama University have just won the prestigious Asahi prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Formula of Fugu | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...power, the poison exists in very small amounts, and its molecule is so delicate that it falls to pieces when chemically molested. Generations of chemists managed to make stronger and stronger concentrations of tetrodotoxin, and in 1949 Professor Akira Yokoo isolated the poison in pure crystalline form. But still the molecular formula defied investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Formula of Fugu | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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