Featured Scientists in 1990: Note:
interviews for the year 1990 are in image form. Some images are
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Nobel Laureate
Donald Cram on
Carceplexes D E B U T I S S U E
January 1990
For over forty years, the UCLA laboratory of Donald J.
Cram has been a font of creative chemistry, producing one fruitful idea after ...
R&D Chief
Patrick Gage of
Genetics Institute on Company Activities
March 1990
When Patrick Gage moved last November from
pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann-LaRoche to take charge of research affairs ...
MIT's
Mark Wrighton on a new Solar
Energy Conversion Technique
April 1990
The oil embargo and consequent energy crisis of 1973-74
made the world think a little harder about possibilities for capturing the ...
UCI's
Francisco Ayala on Clonal
Reproduction in Parasitic Protozoa
May 1990
One in 10 people on earth now suffers from some form of
tropical disease, and this sad statistic is expected to worsen in the coming years, the
World ...
Richard Potember Explores TCNQ Films
for Erasable Optical Storage
July/August 1990
Although still in its infancy, the field of molecular
electronics is growing. Molecular electronics exploits the natural switching properties
...
John Luong Discusses the Boom in Biosensor Research and
Commercialization
September 1990
A biosensor is an analytical device that brings together an
immobilized biological sensing element and a transducer to produce ...
Bert
Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University Closes In on Colorectal Cancer
October 1990
In the early 1980s, the field of oncology took a giant
step forward with the discovery of cellular oncogenes and of their active role in
initiating ...
Emmanuel
Desurvire of Columbia University on Erbium Fiber Amplifiers
November 1990
In October, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)
and the Japanese communications giant Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD) announced ...
Robert Tjian of UC Berkeley on
Transcription Factors and Gene Expression
December 1990
Among the most active fields in all of molecular
biology today is transcription, the process by which genetic information ...
Nobel Laureate
R&D Chief
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