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Only 55 seconds later, Sarah Passano found Anneberg for a quickstick, tying the score...
...said in accepting the Passano Award in 1953 for culturing polio viruses in living tissues...
...Nobel Prize of $28,086 awarded by the Caroline Institute followed on only somewhat less distinguished recognition. In June of 1953, Enders received the Passano, and last tall he was cited for "distinguished achievements in the cultivation of viruses," and given the Lasker Foundation Aware. Finally, last October he was sitting in his office being quizzed over the telephone by the Boston Globe's suspicious science writer, Frances Burns when word first come through that he and his two associated would receive the outstanding science award of the year. "Wait a second," Miss Burns said. "It's coming over...
Nina Mangravite of Radcliffe, L. MacGruder Passano '46, and Robert Hall '48 have arranged the program...
Grisein. The $5,000 Passano Foundation Award (kicked in by Williams & Wilkins of Baltimore, medical publishers) went to Russian-born Dr. Selman Abraham Waksman, 59, microbiologist of Rutgers and the New Jersey Agricultural Station. Dr. Waksman is certainly a leading U.S.-authority on antibiotics. His best-known discovery (1945) was streptomycin, the antibiotic which has shown most promise in the fight against tuberculosis. Early this year he persuaded his favorite mold (Actinomyces griseus) to produce another antibiotic (TIME, Feb. 10). The new one, "grisein," teams up efficiently with streptomycin (in the test tube) to fight a variety of stubborn bacteria...