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In 1943 the Chemistry Department at McGill University set a strong course for the study of carbohydrates and wood polysaccharides when Clifford B. Purves became E.B, Eddy Professor of Industrial and Cellulose Chemistry at McGill, and Director of Wood chemistry research in the Pulp Paper Research Institute of Canada. About ten years later he was joined by Dr. T.E. Timell from Sweden and hemicellulose analysis prevailed for the next decade. Timell focused his attention on wood hemicellulose and generously collaborated with the writer since he was a consultant for American Viscose Corp. where I was employed. My immediate superior was Dr. Wayne Sisson and his experience in x-ray diffraction on cellulose organic polymers encouraged me to learn that technique and apply it to wood hemicelluloses (7,2). 

In the aftermath of WWII, Havemann was commissioned by the Soviets to administer the Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. In addition he set up a laboratory at the KWI for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in which he resumed his research on colloids and dyes. As an overt Communist and opponent of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Havemann s simmering conflict with the West-Berlin authorities culminated in 1950, at the peak of the Cold War, in his dismissal. As a result, he relocated to the GDR, where he carried on with his research on proteins and photochemistry, as professor at Humboldt University and director of its Institute for Physical Chemistry. In addition to his research, he was also active politically, e.g. as dean of student affairs, pro-rector, and... 

During World War II, the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico conducted a highly secret and successful operation to build the world s first atomic bomb. The bomb ended the war, and politicians as well as scientists began to appreciate the benefits of establishing scientific laboratories and conducting research. The national laboratory at Los Alamos continued its work on atomic physics and other projects after the war, and in the early 1950s, the physicists Ernest Lawrence (1901-58) at the University of California, Berkeley, and Edward Teller (1908-2003), then at Los Alamos, urged the establishment of another laboratory. Under the supervision of the University of California, a new national laboratory was set up in Livermore, California, in 1952, with Herbert York (1921-2009), a former student of Lawrence, as its first director. 

But George W. Merck didn t want to rely on professors handouts. He would create labs that would be as good as and look just like those in the university. To do so, the company brought in respected academics like Max Tishler of Harvard and Alfred Newton Richards of the University of Pennsylvania. It set up a new pharmacological lab, the Merck Institute of Therapeutic Research, with its own board of directors. 

To identify information on careers for pharmacists in medical communications, a database at Virginia Commonwealth University, which includes MEDLINE and 212 other databases, was searched. Because this search did not reveal many useful citations, the director of a biomedical writing program at a university that has an established school of pharmacy (Table 1) was interviewed, as were eight pharmacists who had at least 10 years of experience in medical communications and who represented different work settings the mean duration of experience was 15 years (range 10-21 years). Approximately 30 questions were developed, consent was obtained to record and quote the interviewees, telephone interviews were conducted in June 2000, and interviewees were invited to review the first draft. The in-... 

To enable evolutionary development along the enterprise capability roadmap, all organizations must be guided by a stable enterprise architecture, adhere to a common set of standards, and deliver advertised services that perform to defined service-level agreements. The board of directors can serve as an effective mechanism to ensure the adoption of the enterprise architecture and common standards. The loose coupler strategy discussed previously makes it easier to reach agreement on these common foundational elements. Limiting the need for universal... 

It assembled itself by stages. He was not yet ready emotionally to set aside his peacetime plans. Warren Weaver, the director of the division of natural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, visited Berkeley in February to see how construction was progressing on the 4,900-ton, 184-inch cyclotron for which the foundation had awarded a 1,150,000 grant less than twelve months earlier. Lawrence took time to complain about the Uranium Committee s sloth—Weaver worked with another division of the NDRC— but then drove up behind the university to the cyclotron site on the hillside and first irritated and then enthralled the Rockefeller administrator with visions of a superior and much larger machine. 

Mark A. Roberts is a principal scientist and center director for Occupational and Environmental Heath at Exponent. He has a wide array of experiences in chnical occupational and enviromnental medicine and in epidemiologic studies of health complaints in communities and industrial settings. His professional training also covers a broad spectrum from public health to corporate medicine. He has 17 years of experience in the Oklahoma State Department of Health. His corporate experience includes serving as corporate medical director of BP. Dr. Roberts received his MD, MPH, and PhD in biostatistics and epidemiology from the University of Oklahoma. He is licensed by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in occupational medicine. 

The use of rare-earths in immtmoassays as labels was first discussed by two physicists when Erkki Soini, the director of research at company Wallac visited researcher Reino Laiho at the Wihuri Physical Laboratory, University of Turku. Research of time-resolved luminescence had already started at Wallac earlier but Wallac did not have a suitable label. The trials with conventional fluorochromes had led to serious problems on developing instrumentation that could be routinely used. The spectroscopic properties of lanthanides were well known from solid state physics, and after the discussion, the research at Wallac got a new course. Wallac, a small Turku-based company had grown in 1960s and 1970s building beta- and gamma counters for various purposes - in the 70s the fastest growing field was RIA but the company research was set a new course by these new ideas. 

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