Word: casimir
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...three most salient drug advances of the 20th century, vitamins, hormonal medicine and antibacterial "wonder" drugs, the first continues to lead the list in everyday importance. Last week Dr. Casimir Funk, the quiet biochemist whose research ranged through two of these fields and led him to the discovery of vitamins in 1911, died of cancer at 83 in Albany...
Died. Dr. Casimir Funk, 83, the discoverer of vitamins (see MEDICINE...
...these are palliatives. The problem always returns to the question of European national economic boundaries. Hendrik Casimir, research director of The Netherlands' N.V. Philips' Lamp, says ironically: "If America really wants to do something, let it start introducing different currencies in all the 50 states and impose serious boundaries between them. If this experiment were tried, ten or 15 years from now we might well bridge...
Backbreaking Gesture. The reliquary bust of St. Sigismund (see color page) demonstrates the multiple origins of Polish art. Given by Polish King Casimir the Great to the cathedral in Plock in 1370, the gilt object commemorates the martyred king of Burgundy, killed by the Franks during the 6th century, who became so popular that three kings of Poland took the name of Sigismund. The crown, studded with tourmalines, diamonds, pearls and sapphires, was commissioned in Venice nearly 150 years before the making of the bust, which was fashioned in Germany...
Andrew Jackson Casimir Pulaski...