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Featured Scientists in 1991:
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Jules HieschRockefeller University's Jules Hiesch Discusses Research on Obesity
*March 1991
After more than 35 years of studying obesity from virtually every angle, Jules Hirsch is still looking toward the future. While he is ...

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Frank WilczekPhysicist Frank Wilczek asks, "Anyons, anyone?"
*April 1991
Once upon a time, in the early 1980s, a small group of theoretical physicists probed the statistical possibilities of a new class of ...

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Caleb FinchUSC's Caleb Finch on the Neurobiology of Aging
*May 1991
All but ignored before the 1960s, the subject of aging has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In the United States ...

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Ron DavisStanford's Ron Davis Reflects on the Rise of Yeast Studies
*June 1991
For years, yeast failed to get a rise out of researchers. The single-celled eukaryote was repeatedly passed over by the ...

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Ahmed Zewail Caltech's Ahmed Zewail on the Fast Moving World of Femtochemistry
*July 1991
The word femtochemistry was coined to describe a brand new area of chemical physics that was, in large measures, the work ...

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Roger PenroseOxford's Roger Penrose Looks for Links Between the Quantum & Classical
*August 1991
It is typical for mathematically gifted individuals to enjoy a good puzzle. Roger Penrose is no exception. a long-standing interest ...

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Michael J. BerridgeMichael J. Berridge on Insositol Phosphates & Cell Signaling
*September 1991
Perhaps no topic in the biological sciences during the last decade has been more intensively pursued—and by more investigators—than the ...

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Loyola University TeamThe Loyola University Team
*October 1991
Thousands of times each day and millions of times each year, diagnostic procedures requiring the use of contrast media are performed ...

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Valerie BeralValerie Beral Tracks the Agent of Kaposi's Sarcoma
*November/December 1991
In the early 1980s, health officials in New York and California witnessed an alarming outbreak of Kaposi's sarcoma and ...

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