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University since 1931, they have patiently traced the body's step-by-step transformation of carbohydrates and sugars into substances in blood and tissue. Their Nobel Prize was for discovering and synthesizing a complicated enzyme (an enzyme is a biological catalyst) that begins the process of converting glycogen (animal starch) into sugar in the body...
...Matilda M. Brooks, a University of California physiologist, discovered in 1932 that the drug known as methylene blue counteracts the oxygen starvation caused by certain poisons (cyanide, carbon monoxide). Acting as a catalyst, the drug improves oxygen absorption by the red blood cells, thereby helping the body to make the most of a curtailed oxygen supply. Recently Dr. Brooks journeyed to Peru, where travelers in the high Andes are subject to soroche, a common fainting sickness caused by lack of oxygen (TIME, June 23). Dr. Brocks took some medical students up to an altitude of 15,000 feet and gave...
Political observers immediately took off on speculative flights. It was noted that once Eisenhower dropped his active military status, he would be in "an open arena" a few months before the presidential conventions. It was also noted that Eisenhower is an acknowledged "catalyst," and that he had the magic ability to unite dissident factions. No party could overlook his enormous prestige. But no one knew for sure whether he was a Republican or a Democrat...
...Catalyst with Resilience. Having just weathered the toughest science brushup course of all time, Teacher Conant should be in good form. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee he exercised absolute dictatorial powers over men and materials in its $2 billion wartime research program, developing radar, antiradar, various new chemical warfare wrinkles-and nuclear fission. Conant's job was as an organizer, moderator and catalyst, but he would have failed if he had not been a topnotch scientist...
...worked without stint in P.A.C. He held the dissonant factions together and patiently built it into a potent political machine. He was its guide, strategist and catalyst...