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Word: virologist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down with psittacosis ("parrot fever," also called ornithosis). Before the discovery of antibiotics, psittacosis was unbeatable, killed scores of people in the U.S. This led to a federal embargo on all members of the parrot family-they still cannot be imported for sale. But last week, famed old (74) Virologist Karl F. Meyer was hailed at Stockholm's International Congress for Microbiology for a research victory that was strictly for the birds: he has found a way to keep parakeets (or budgerigars ) free of the psittacosis virus simply by feeding them seed treated with a common antibiotic. More important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Strictly for the Birds | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...They laughed when I sat down at my test tubes." That is how the - University of California's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist Wendell M. Stanley might have begun his San Francisco lecture. For many physicians thought that Stanley had gone much too far when he suggested that viruses, or virus-like particles, might be responsible for all forms of cancer. But in support of his hypothesis, Stanley last week marshaled a phalanx of evidence from more than a dozen high-powered researchers as well as from his own laboratories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Viruses & Cancer | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...mistaking it for a milder form of smallpox. Actually it was measles, a sometimes dangerous illness that has long been considered an unavoidable childhood disease. Now there is a good chance that the spots will be wiped out, thanks to the work of Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist John Franklin Enders, whose researches also made the Salk polio vaccine possible. For Enders' own progress report, see MEDICINE, Vaccine for Measles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...vaccine against measles is at last in sight. This momentous news was announced last week to a Manhattan conference of virus experts by Harvard's famed Virologist John Franklin Enders, winner of a Nobel Prize for developing the tissue-culture foundation on which the Salk polio vaccine was built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vaccine for Measles | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...Straight Line? The University of California's famed Virologist Wendell M. Stanley took sharpest issue with Salk. A Nobel Prizewinner himself for original work in crystallizing viruses. Stanley flatly denied Salk's theory that formaldehyde kills polio virus particles in a neat, straight-line fashion. "I have seen many times where the curve does not follow that theory," he said-and not only in his own laboratory, but also in big vaccine factories. As for the testing methods before the "incident," Dr. Stanley declared: "In the light of subsequent knowledge, they were grossly inadequate." The implication: given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cutter in Court | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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