Featured Scientists in 1995: Note:
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Stuart L. Schreiber
Brings the Right Chemistry to Cell Biology
January 1995
One of the lessons learned in the last decade of cell
biology research is that protein-protein interactions constitute ...
Chemist and Writer: An Interview with Roald
Hoffmann
February 1995
Every chemist is familiar with the Woodward-Hoffmann rules
that predict the products of reactions in organic ...
Thierry Boon on Cancer
Immunotherapy
*March 1995
The idea of a cancer vaccine has always been perceived
as something of a Holy Grail in medicine, if not an impossible ...
Sir Alec Jeffreys on DNA
Profiling and Minisatellites
April 1995
Since the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953,
knowledge of the composition and organization of the ...
Sir Roy Calne Pursues Higher
Tolerance in Transplantation
May 1995
As recently as 40 years ago, organ transplantation was
still a distant dream. Since then it has transformed into a ...
Harvard's Walter C. Willett
on Epidemiology
June 1995
The science of risk-factor epidemiology has become one
of the most newsworthy disciplines in science. Each week ...
George Papanicolaou Seeks
Order in Turbulence
July/August 1995
One of the words most frequently used to describe the
state of turbulence is "ubiquitous." Turbulent flows are found not only ...
IAS's
John N. Bahcall Probes the Lightweight Universe
September 1995
With his many contriubtions to neutrino astrophysics,
John N. Bahcall has played a major part in opening a window ...
K. Barry Sharpless Battles Evil Twins
*October 1995
Chemist K. Barry Sharpless works in a world of mirror
images. Even as a undergraduate student at Dartmouth College, ...
Making Penicillin Possible: Norman
Heatley Remembers
November/December 1995
Everyone knows that Alexander Fleming discovered
penicillin by accident; that was in 1928. But penicillin, though a potent ...
Chemist and Writer: An Interview with 
Harvard's 
IAS's
Making Penicillin Possible: 
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