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Honjo, Tasuku

(Encyclopedia) Honjo, Tasuku, 1942–, Japanese immunologist, Ph.D. Kyoto Univ., 1975. Honjo was a member of the medical faculty at the Univ. of Tokyo from 1974 to 1979 and a professor at the Osaka…

Crab, The

(Encyclopedia) Crab, The, English name for Cancer, a constellation.

Lindahl, Tomas

(Encyclopedia) Lindahl, Tomas, 1938–, Swedish-born British biochemist, grad. Karolinska Institute (Ph.D. 1967, M.D. 1970). Lindahl was a professor at the Univ. of Gothenburg from 1978 to 1982. In…

Pap test

(Encyclopedia) Pap test,&sp;Pap smear, or Papanicolaou testPapanicolaou testpăpˌənēˈkəlou [key], medical procedure used to detect cancer of the uterine cervix (see uterus). A scraping, brushing,…

Huggins, Charles Brenton

(Encyclopedia) Huggins, Charles Brenton, 1901–97, American surgeon and urologist, b., Halifax, N.S., M.D. Harvard Univ., 1924. He was a professor at Arcadia Univ. at the time of his retirement in…

Hunt, R. Timothy

(Encyclopedia) Hunt, R. Timothy (Richard Timothy Hunt), 1943–, British biochemist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1968. Hunt was a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City (1968–81) and…

Cancer, in astronomy

(Encyclopedia) Cancer [Lat.,=the crab], in astronomy, constellation lying on the ecliptic (the sun's apparent path through the heavens) between Gemini and Leo; it is a constellation of the zodiac. It…

Slye, Maud

(Encyclopedia) Slye, MaudSlye, Maudslī [key], 1879–1954, American pathologist, b. Minneapolis, grad. Brown, 1899. At the Univ. of Chicago she taught pathology, becoming professor emeritus in 1945,…

Dulbecco, Renato

(Encyclopedia) Dulbecco, RenatoDulbecco, Renatorənätˈō dŭlbĕkˈō [key], 1914–2012, Italian-American virologist, b. Catanzaro, Italy. In 1947 he came to the United States to work with Salvador Luria at…

Nurse, Sir Paul Maxime

(Encyclopedia) Nurse, Sir Paul Maxime, 1949–, British biochemist, Ph.D. Univ. of East Anglia, 1973. Nurse was associated with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK London Research…