While at Northwestern, Hall attended classes with a fellow student named Carroll L. Griffith who would later go on to become the founder of Griffith Laboratories. After graduation, Hall earned a graduate degree from the University of Chicago. Hall was soon hired by the Western Electric Company through a telephone interview. When he showed up for his first day, however, he was told by a personnel officer that "we don't take niggers." Recovering from this slight, he began working for the Chicago Department of Health as a chemist and was promoted in 1917 to senior chemist.
Thanks to the liberal policy of University president Robert Hutchins, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded a tuition scholarship, at the age of 15. In 1947 Watson left the University of Chicago to become a graduate student at Indiana University, attracted by the presence at Bloomington of the 1946 Nobel Prize winner Hermann Joseph Muller, who in crucial papers published in 1922, 1929, and in the 1930s had laid out all the basic properties of the heredity molecule that presented in his 1944 book. He received his PhD degree from Indiana University in 1950. Watson married Elizabeth Lewis in 1968. They have two sons, Rufus Robert Watson and Duncan James Watson.
Derek Yung Cor 100 Senator: Robert Wagner Robert Wagner was born in Nastätten[->0] (Federal Republic of Germany[->1]) and immigrated with his parents to the United States[->2] in 1885. His family settled in New York City[->3] where Mr. Wagner attended public school. He graduated City College[->4] in 1898 and then went to pursue his graduate law degree at New York Law School[->5] in 1900. Robert Wagner represents the democratic party, he was elected to the United States Senate[->6] in 1926[->7], and then elected again in 1932[->8], 1938[->9] and 1944[->10]. He resigned on June 28, 1949, because of heart health issues.
Macleod, who provided the lab space and direction to Banting and Best, put his research team to work on the production and purification of insulin. J.B. Collip joined the team of reaserchers and with his technical knowledge the four men were able to purify insulin to use on diabetic patients. The first test were conducted on Leonard Thompson early in 1922. These were a grest success. word of this discovery spread rapidly around the world, giving hope to many diabectic people who were near death.
After improved understanding of the causes of disease there was understanding that you could cure a disease. Behring used this and Koch’s work to isolate anti toxins that would otherwise ,harm the body, to fight Diphtheria, Behring then found a way to inject it. Paul Ehrlich ( a member of Koch’s team) used his team to build on this work , he knew that certain dyes stained specific microbes (Koch’s work) furthermore with Behring’s work Paul tres to find a cure for syphillis a “magic bullet” that would only target the microbes and not the body. He managed to research seven years which was only made possible because of government funds. In 1909 Dr Hata had joined the research team and he reviewed the previous experiments.
Because of the improvements in sanitation and hygiene in the last 100 years, Cholera has been wiped out of England and much of the rest of the world3. John Snow (1813 – 1858) A member of the royal college of surgeons, also a member of the royal college of physicians he played a big part in discovering the cause of Cholera. At the time, it was assumed that cholera was airborne, but he did not believe the ‘miasma’ (bad air) theory. He argued that it entered the body through the mouth. He published these ideas in an essay ‘On the Mode of Communication of Cholera’ in 1849.
Guy and his father built a three-wheeled bicycle cart named “The Awesome Pretzel” which he sold pretzels from, for six years until he had enough money to study at Chantilly Framce at the age of 16. This was during his junior and senior years of high school. When he returned from France, Guy by passed his own high school graduation. When he was done with high school he attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and graduated in 1990. He received his Bachelor of Science in Hospital Management.
April Morning My book report is on April Morning, by Howard Fast. This book was first published in 1961. A little about the author, he was born in New York City on November 11, 1914. Howard was the offspring of two Jewish immigrants. While his father Barney was the son of Ukrainian immigrants, his mother Ida was a British Jew.
Shomoi K. Francis March 3, 2011 Ms. Wright Chemistry 1 Patricia Bath Patricia Bath was born on November 4, 1942, and the daughter of Rupert and Gladys Bath. Her father an immigrant from Trinidad was a newspaper columnist, a merchant seaman and the first black man to work for the New York City Subway as a motorman. She was raised in Harlem; Bath was motivated academically by her parents. Inspired by Albert Schweitzer, she applied for and won a National Science Foundation Scholarship while attending Charles Evans Hughes High School; this led her to a research project at Yeshiva University and Harlem Hospital Center on cancer that irritated her interest in medicine. I n 1960, still a teenager, Bath won the "Merit Award" of Mademoiselle Magazine for her contribution to the project.
Charles L. Reason Algebra II Trig Charles L. Reason was born July 21, 1818 in New York City to West Indies immigrants Michael and Elizabeth Reason. Charles attended the African Free School along with his brothers Elmer and Patrick both who are important historical figures in their own right. An excellent student in mathematics, Reason became an instructor in 1832 at the school at age fourteen this became a striking matter for the news, receiving a salary of $25 a year. He used some of his earnings to hire tutors to improve his knowledge. Later, he decided to enter the ministry but was rejected because of his race by the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City.