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...first method of counting atomic particles was by "scintillations." Using a microscope, early atomic physicists counted the tiny flashes of light that are made by particles from radium as they hit a fluorescent screen. As soon as Geiger tubes and other radiation detectors were developed, physicists gave up this tedious method. Counting scintillations by eye and microscope was about the most tiresome routine in physics...
Called for: a $10,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to Paris' Radium Institute; by French Journalist Eve Curie, daughter of radium discoverers Pierre and Marie. Daughter Eve was invited to pick up the grant at the society's banquet in Philadelphia this week. Available in the U.S. but not invited: Eve's fellow-traveling sister Irene, a director of the institute's physics laboratories...
...Coris were not the first husband-&-wife team so honored (former prizewinners: Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie Curie, Chemists Frederic Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot). Carl, 50, and Gerty Cori, 51, both born in what used to be Austria-Hungary, met as medical students in the same class at the University of Prague, soon afterward were married and teamed up in a lifetime study of the mysterious chemistry of the human body. Their work may some day lead to a cure for diabetes (TIME, May 12). At Washington...
...Memorial, as elsewhere, surgery, radium and X rays are still the basic, most successful treatments. Some 90% of Memorial's patients are operated on (the hospital's "fiveyear cure" rate for stomach cancer: 25%). But Memorial is also pioneering in hormones for breast and prostate cancers, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancers, nitrogen mustards for Hodgkin's disease, radioactive phosphorus for certain forms of leukemia, a urine test for early cancer detection, studies of an extract of the adrenal gland, which looks like a hopeful candidate against stomach cancer...
Commented Dr. Erich Uhlmann, expert in radium therapy and director of the tumor clinic at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital: "Yes, and if you bow east three times, it helps...