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| Title: | Anecdotes – Great Scientists |
| Authors: | Dhar, Durga Nath |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Leloir and Kapitsa
Leloir (Nobel
Prize, 1970), an Argentinean doctor and biochemist,was a great innovator. Due to lack of research funds he often esorted to
homemade gadgets and makeshift contrivances to continue his work in the laboratory.Once, unable to procure a costly refrigerated centrifuge
needed to separate
cell contents,
he improvised by
spinning a
rubber tyre stuffed with
common salt and
powered ice
(for producing
low temperature).
Likewise, he
used waterproof
cardboard to
make shift gutters
in order to
protect his laboratory’s
library from the
rain. |
| Page(s): | 14-15 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0036-8512 |
| Source: | SR Vol.48(01) [January 2011]
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