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Har Gobind Khorana (1922–2011): Pioneering Spirit

One of the great chemists of the 20th century died on November 9, 2011. H. Gobind Khorana, a founder of what we now call chemical biology and a pioneer at the dawn of the age of molecular biology, was 89 (see Image 1). Gobind was a creative and insightful chemist, with many landmark achievements to his credit, including the first practical synthesis of nucleotides and coenzymes in the mid-1950s...

The Pioneering Process.

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Pioneering the Femtoworld Ofmolecules

December 1817, a group of poets met in London in the studio of the painter Benjamin Haydon, who recorded in his diary how Wordsworth abused him for putting Newton’s head into one of his paintings. ‘A fellow’, Wordsworth declared, ‘who believed nothing unless it was as clear as the three sides of a triangle.’ Keats, who was present, agreed and they all drank ‘Newton’s health, and confusion to ma...

Pioneering community-oriented primary care.

This is a retrospective report on the importance of Kark and Cassel's 1952 paper on community-oriented primary care (COPC). In 1978, WHO and UNICEF endorsed COPC. However, the ideas girding and framing this approach had first been given full expression in practice some four decades earlier. In Depression-Era South Africa, Sidney Kark, a leader of the National Department of Health, converted ...

Pioneering Partner for Cosmetic Peptides