Word: atomizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Disappearing Soul. God and the soul are hypotheses; so were evolution and the atom, but these two are now theories "with high predictive value and practical applicability." Whereas "the soul-hypothesis, after being promoted by the scholastic theologians to the dignity of high theory, is now increasingly failing to account for psychological and neurological facts: the soul as an entity is disappearing...
While much of the company's work is theoretical problem solving, some of it is quite practical. Sample: How do you find out how much fallout there is on a house from an atom blast without exploding a bomb? Tech Ops' answer was to build a scaled-down city, surround it with plastic tubing through which radioactive cobalt 60 is pumped, and then measure the fallout. The results are projected to a full-scale city. Through such experiments for the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Tech Ops will make recommendations for realistic civil defense measures...
...sugar, fats and other high-energy chemicals out of water and carbon diox ide. They have known for more than one century that this vital food-making process-photosynthesis, the prime mover of life on eartn-is accompusned by chlorophyll, a strange, green substance whose molecule has a single atom of magnesium framed like a jewel in its center. Generations of chemists have tried to synthesize chlorophyll-and failed. But last week Harvard University announced that Professor Robert Burns Woodward, 43, already famed for synthesizing quinine, cortisone and strychnine, had turned the historic trick: he had built genuine chlorophyll...
...aceto-acetic ester, a very ordinary chemical, which was then broken into four different compounds called pyrroles. Then followed what Woodward calls "tailoring the framework"-meaning that he and his 17 helpers devised subtle chemical tricks to put together the skeleton of the chlorophyll molecule and add the atom groups that clothe it. The final step, and one of the most difficult, was to separate chlorophyll-a (the real McCoy) from its mirror image, which was also produced by the synthesis...
From dozens of technical papers spread over four atom-packed days, it was clear that what was true when the society was founded is still true: nuclear medicine offers no panaceas for any of man's ills. Progress is being made by slow, painstaking steps. And most of it is in basic research; there are some advances in diagnostic techniques, but relatively few in new methods of treatment...