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...Selman A. Waksman, 60, discoverer of streptomycin and neomycin (TIME, April 4), has dreamed for years of better facilities for hunting new antibiotics and for teaching others to join in the search. Last week streptomycin and the generosity of Scientist Waksman brought the dream near reality. Rutgers University announced that Dr. Waksman had turned over his patent rights to the Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation...
Royalties last year were more than $700,000, but they were no temptation to Scientist Waksman to take to the easy life. His self-effacing explanation was that he was sure the "age of antibiotics" was only beginning, and he wanted to do what he could to speed its progress. The institute would, he hoped, become a "Mecca for microbiologists...
...award goes to the scientist making an outstanding contribution to the field of meteors, Director Harlow Shapley said...
Edwin H. Cohn became the first scientist ever to hold a University Professorship when President Conant announced his appointment last night. The post is one of the four top professorships at Harvard...
Books v. Convertibles. Stoke wasted no time. As some students sized him up, he was a friendly, mild-mannered political scientist, still youthful and brisk at 44, whose idea of a good time was to sit down in his study with a copy of Bertrand Russell. But L.S.U. found new President Stoke meant business about keeping politics off the campus at Baton Rouge. He wanted Louisianans to understand that the university was for education and not "an instrumentality of government." Nor was the university a playground. "Give a student a convertible and a textbook," he said, "and you cannot expect...