Word: molecular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their most secure foothold is in science. They are telling us things about molecular structure and aero-dynamics. In hard-to-quantify sciences like linguistics or psychology they are partly hamstrung; they can't tell the difference between sentences like "Fruit flies like a banana" and "Time flies like an arrow." But they have created their own languages which people must use to communicate with them, and these computer languages throw light on the mysteries of human speech...
...when brother and sister are reconciled in a scene that conveys forcefully the author's tragicomic sense of life. Even Dr. Braun, the scientist, is "bitterly moved" by the "crude circus of feeling"-but not so moved that it prevents him from trying to explain human emotions in molecular and cosmic metaphors...
...inherited features from one generation to the next. And one of the greatest of man's scientific triumphs has been the discovery of the method by which the genes transmit and translate the message of heredity. Last week, for their ingenious work in breaking the genetic code, U.S. Molecular Biologists Marshall Nirenberg, 41, Har Gobind Khorana, 46, and Robert Holley, 46, were jointly awarded the 1968 Nobel prize for physiology and medicine...
...their accomplishments the three new U.S. Nobelmen have not only provided a clearer understanding of the nature of life, they have brought closer the day when molecular biologists will be able to correct genetic defects, control heredity, and perhaps even create life itself...
This summer Epstein used federal and foundation grants to hold month-long seminars at Tufts University for 13 Negro teachers of molecular biology and physiology. He also brought in ten black freshmen from Tennessee A. & I. to take the experimental course. They came to understand the papers as well as his students at Brandeis, Epstein discovered, and they did so faster. This is partly because the method places more emphasis on understanding the scientists' techniques than on reading comprehension. One girl even suggested an experimental technique similar to one that had led to a breakthrough in molecular genetics...