Word: bacteriologist
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...HONORS for making the breakthrough discovery went to a traditional bacteriologist. Taking purified DNA extracted from the chromosomes of dead pneumonia bacteria, Rockefeller Institute's Oswald T. Avery and his associates showed that it could transform other, normally harmless bacteria into virulent ones. The experiment indicated that it was DNA, and not protein, that carried the genetic message. So unexpected was that finding that even Avery was at first unwilling to accept it. Eight years later, Alfred Hershey and his assistant Martha Chase demonstrated that a virus' DNA could, by taking over a bacterium, also nullify the cell's genetic...
Died. Dr. Barry Wood, 60, onetime grid star and noted bacteriologist; of a heart attack; in Boston. Wood was one of the first to publish a paper on penicillin. Later he led in research on the mechanism by which white blood cells fight invading organisms. Wood was named vice president of Johns Hopkins University and hospital in 1955, heading its department of microbiology from 1959 until his death. He was to have received the Kober award, the Association of American Physicians' highest tribute...
Died. Dr. Paul de Kruif, 80, bacteriologist and author of laymen-oriented medical books: of a heart attack: in Holland, Mich. Holder of a Ph.D. in microbiology but no medical degree, De Kruif developed an antitoxin for gas gangrene, helped produce a successful treatment for syphilis before penicillin was used. He wrote 13 books, among them the bestsellers Hunger Fighters and Microbe Hunters. He also collaborated with Sinclair Lewis on Arrowsmith, which dealt with a onetime country doctor. Answering whispers that he had ghosted the book for Lewis, De Kruif said: "This is wrong. But Lewis would have been completely...
...last Crimson back to be named All-American in football. Wood graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and went on to become a bacteriologist who wrote one of the first papers on penicillin. Wood spent his life as a teacher, physician, and researcher and served 11 years as head of the department of microbiology at Johns Hopkins University...
...that world of information, however, is a reflection of his culture. To wit, a farmer sees a different meadow than a city the large human questions at stake than can a different notion of "culture" than a bacteriologist or intellectual historian...