Word: biochemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate concentrating in one of the sciences, the coming of spring brings no small discomfort. The warm zephyrs from the fields are at war with the fumes of the laboratory and the young biochemist or physiologist searches his course catalogue sullenly in the hope of finding a combination of studies which will leave him an afternoon or two a week to air out his lungs. But he will be deceived; he will pick a course which requires two hours of laboratory work but actually demands six, and one which calls for two afternoons at first but ultimately takes three...
Vitamin C occurs in raw lemons, cabbages, oranges, lettuce, grapefruit, green peppers, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, spinach. It seems to be identical with hexuronic acid which Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, able Hungarian biochemist, discovered in cabbage leaves and adrenal glands. With knowledge of Vitamin C's chemical structure in hand, the Gottingen men expect speedily to synthesize that vitamin, as Hindus have synthesized Vitamin B, Americans Vitamin...
Professor James Bertram Collip, 39, biochemist, co-developer of insulin, more recently isolator of emmenin, one of the sex hormones beneficial in treating female disorders...
...prize went jointly to Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, who declares that he was the "originator of the idea," and to Professor John James Rickard Macleod, his supervisor, both of whom split their prize money with two other men-Physiologist Charles Herbert Best, Biochemist Collip- who had helped in the investigations...
...American Chemical Society upon Dr. Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene. Dr. Levene, 62, Russian-born, has been a member of the Rockefeller Institute since 1907. He began as a doctor of medicine, changed quickly after his emigration to the U. S. (1893) to the chemistry of living material. As a biochemist he ranks with the world's best. He berates in other scientists their feeling that life is inscrutable. Cried he last week: "Shall chance, probability, indeterminism become the foundation of the philosophy of biology as they are of the philosophy of the physical world? Shall 'life' forever...