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Relaxin seems to be a protein compound, insoluble in most solvents. Though the pure hormone has not yet been isolated, Hisaw has produced highly concentrated doses. A conscientious scientist who never lets himself get ahead of his facts, Dr. Hisaw refuses to predict what use, if any, may be made of relaxin...
Bush's army consists of 6,000 of the top U.S. scientists. They work on assigned jobs, under nonprofit contracts, in some 300 university and industrial laboratories. Their pay is their normal laboratory salaries. They get no royalties, no bonuses, no medals. Their work is surrounded with fantastic secrecy. When they meet for group talks, the meeting place is first searched from cellar to attic for eavesdroppers. Clerical workers often do not know even the name of the weapon being developed in their own laboratory. A few supersecret projects are carried on in isolated, walled villages which...
...prodigious memory, he has solid learning in the more obvious forms of literature (he quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard), likes to read philosophy, plays the flute, loves symphonic music, has been a successful farmer and turkey raiser, is a fascinated and fascinating lecturer, and as a scientist has contributed substantially to progress in applied electricity and electronics...
Mainly responsible for development of the "U.P." (unrotative projectile) was Dr. Alwyn Douglas Crow, scientist in the Ministry of Supply. Dr. Crow, an infantryman in World War I, has been conducting rocket experiments since 1936; early work was carried out in a secret laboratory deep in the English countryside, firing trials in Jamaica, B.W.I...
...Davidson, 17, a stocky, curly-haired Mormon farm boy of Fort Bridger, Wyo. Besides running his father's farm (his father runs a garage), Amber paints, plays the cornet, is light-heavyweight boxing champion of Bridger Valley, captained his high-school (Lyman Seminary) football team. A self-taught scientist, he began to put motors together at six, now has a departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army may be interested...