Science: Macro-Molecules

Five years ago Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley, an organic chemist trained at the University of Illinois and in Germany, went to work in the new laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute at Princeton. His objective was to find out what viruses are. Last week at a biophysics meeting in Philadelphia (sponsored by the American Institute of Physics and the University of them as Pennsylvania) he "mysterious was still purveyors of referring disease'' to but he was able to tell much more about them than he or any man knew five years ago, to...

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