Word: bacteriologist
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...Howard Taylor Ricketts Memorial Award from the University of Chicago. The Noble-Prize winner will accept the award in Chicago May 31 and will speak on recent observations on reactions of cells in culture to viral infections. The Ricketts award is named after the University of Chicago bacteriologist who discovered the micro-organism that causes typhus fever and proved that Resky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by ticks...
Enders received a M.A. in English from Harvard in 1922, but entered the field of medical microbiology in 1927. For over 15 years he worked in the lab of Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist at the Medical School, who had influenced him to switch fields...
...West Germany's highly respected Zentralblatt für Bacteriologie, Bacteriologist Heinz J. Dombrowski reported that he had revived dehydrated bacteria preserved in rock salt since the Permian Period 180 million years ago. In Britain's Nature, Dr. George Claus of New York University Medical Center and Chemistry Professor Bartholomew Nagy of Fordham University reported finding dead organisms that may have ridden in from outer space aboard meteorites...
...Some bacteriologists may still be skeptical. Bacteria can be enclosed in crystallized salt and stay alive. Only last week bacteria were reported that had lived in Antarctic ice for 44 years, since the Shackelton Expedition of 1917. But living in salt for 180 million years is an unheard-of feat. Dombrowski, nevertheless, has able supporters. Bacteriologist Georg Henneberg, head of Berlin's famed Robert Koch Institute, does not doubt that Dombrowski extracted living bacteria from the interior of solid blocks of Zechstein salt-though there is still a slim possibility that the salt was contaminated relatively recently by bacteria...
...thesis on the origin of genders, worked two years before he found that a student at Heidelberg had long since done the subject with unimprovable thoroughness. "I mouth the strange syllables of ten forgotten languages, letting my spirits fail, my youth pass," he youthfully wrote. Then a roommate, Australian Bacteriologist Hugh Ward, introduced John Enders to Hans Zinsser, Harvard University's professor of bacteriology and immunology, and one of the great fertilizing minds of his era (Rats, Lice and History for the layman. Infection and Resistance for the profession). Enders was then 30. "A man of superlative energy," Enders...