Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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.4-1 Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, john Edsall helped develop the technique for plasma protein separation. and later was rehabilitated for occupation by the Department of Biology. New and well-equipped laboratories for plant physiology were provided in this process. The animal rooms were extended, and there is now a total air-conditioned capacity for animals almost equal to that available before the war. The newly organized Department of Bio-chemistry was assigned three floors in the reconditioned North Wing. Similarly, the re-opening of the Gibbs Memorial Lab- oratory relieved an otherwise threatening situation by providing Professor Alden Dawson, Head of the Biology Department, has made an exhaustive study of the pituitary gland, is an eminent cytologist. 'E . . Q Kenneth V. Thimann, Director of the Biological Laboratories, has a detailed knowledge of plant physiology. research space sufficient to accommodate some twenty gradu- ate students in chemistry. The Berman Memorial Laboratory in the Mineralogical Museum, equipped as a result of gifts from friends of the late Professor Harry Berman, was opened in November, 1946, and is the finest laboratory in the country for X-ray studies of minerals. The completion of the new Computation Laboratory, about which more will be said later, permitted the removal of Professor Aiken's Automatic Se- quence Controlled Calculating Machine from the basement of Frederick L. Hisaw, expert in the chemistry of reproduction, discovered the new hormone relaxin, a possible aid to childbirth. ,,

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I l l l Garrett Birkhoff, a specialist in abstract mathematics, was a wartime consultant on the atom bomb at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. prices. Even so, it was possible to meet fairly satisfactorily the requirements of the situation, both during the years when much space was devoted to military projects and during the period of demobilization that began in 1945. The North Wing of the Biological Laboratories was taken over by the Radio Research Laboratory during the war Robert B. Woodward, Associate Professor of Chemistry, holds 21 molecular model of synthetic protein, which he discovered. He was also the first to develop a synthetic quinine. i ilili Iigt-HS C. GRATON ALBERT HAERTLEIN lllf1'hSUl' ul imolmgy lf'-of!-Spur UQ fix-il 1Qm:im...,.iHg -W l ROGER fWAYNE -HICK MAN LEIGH HOADLEY 'l iv i'I'lvf1'SN1vl'lil-Ztlllltlfly ' li1'l'ilIl'1'l' on Applu-il I me A i,ll'l'4'lIll'4lflil1'Jl'lTl'l'SllIl l.nlmi'zLlol'y ,FREDERICK HUNT CORNELIUS S. HURLBUT, JR 'I rofvssur uf .-Xpplli-sl Physln-s Assam-inte l'l'ofuss4n' of Nlllll'l'llillIIS Illlw-1-lor, lTIlli0I'XVll.il'l Slllllltl I,:xl1, ' FRINNELLHJONES EDWIN c. KEMBLE I f NN'll' 'lf f lll'UllNl FY l'ruft-ssul' of l'l1VNi4's fi,ll'1i.lllllt'2ii, WITH ' R. W, P. KING E. q,S. LARSEN, JR. l'fvff'SHHI' 'Pl IXIIIVHWI l'l'NNi N l'l'nI'm-ssm' of l'n-troi.:i':lplny

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l l l Ii The vertical as well as the horizontal motion of the earth is recorded on the new earthquake detector of Professor Don Leet. With this machine he hopes to be able to predict costal storms by studying the behavior of small ground waves. the Lyman Laboratory, and the space thus vacated was altered to provide suitable quarters for the large number of men work- ing on doctoral dissertations in theoretical physics. New Course Offerings Changes in course offerings were at least as significant as these and other adjustments and improvements of physical resources. The basic course in physiology was reorganized by Dr. Carroll M. Williams, and Professorj. H. Welsh made Analytical chemist james Lingane is co-author along with I. M. Kolthoff, of Pola1'ogr'aplay. - .i Organic chemist Louis Fieser, who developed jellied gasoline for the wartime napalm fire bombs and flame throwers, is famous for his research on chemotherapeutic drugs to stop cancer and malaria. notable modifications in the elementary course in Zoology, a course enrolling between 400 and 500 students and taught in 1947-48 by Professorjeffries Wyman. The experiment under which elementary botany was offered in 1946-47 by seven staff members, with Professor William H. Weston serving as co-ordinator, proved so successful that the plan was continued in 1947-48 under the direction of Professors Mangelsdorf and Wetmore. In keeping with the needs for General Education Henry Bigelow, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, was once Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. ll l ' .' I 3 i 1'