Friday, September 27, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Six
JEWISH GIANTS OF SCIENCE
By PAUL GOULD
It wasn't so long ago that Jew-
ish genius was playing an extra-
ordinary role in the development
of the atomic bomb, thereby pry-
ing open the door to a postwar
world of atomic energy. Signifi-
cant as this development has
been, it is only a by-product of
the monumental feats performed
by scientists of the Jewish faith
in the broad field of experiment
a n d research. And, strikingly
enough, much of these new en.
deavors have been launched by
refugees whose spark of brilliance
was almost extinguished by Nazi
terror.
Particularly is this true in the
case of two men — Dr. Ernst Boris
Chain and Dr. W. S. Lowew. The
former has already been accorded
world-wide praise because of his
most important contributions in
the development of penicillin. As
a matter of fact, Dr. Chain was
co-honored with Sir Alexander
Fleming and Howard Florey by a
joint Nobel Prize award of $30,000
last year for their discovery.
Dr. Lowew has not yet won a
Nobel award but if his most cher-
ished experiment reaches fulfill-
ment, there is no doubt but that
he will be so recognized. He has
been working for 25 years In de-
veloping a drug that he hopes
will cure all allergies, including
that blight of late Summer, hay
fever.
The careers of the two men
bear a strong resemblance. A few
months after Hitler seized power
In 1933, Dr. Chain fled to Eng-
land, leaving behind his mother
and sister. He is still ignorant of
their where abouts and fate. A
slight man with rosy cheeks, snap.
py eyes, thick black hair and a
heavy mustache, Dr. Chain is only
40 years of age, yet one of the
most brilliant men in bio-chemis-
tr; today. In addition, he is a
gifted concert pianist, has ap-
peared with orchestras in Berlin
and has given his own concerts.
When he came to England, Dr.
Chain went to Cambridge Univer-
sity for research on enzymes and
the isolation of biologically-active
substances. Bio-chemistry is the
science of living tissues. At the
time Dr. Florey was professor of
pathology in the William Dunn
School at Oxford and was seeking
war broke out and they began
their research.
Sir Alexander Fleming had first
discovered, in 1929, a mold that
stopped the growth of deadly bac.
teria but he claimed no extraor-
dinary healing qualities for it.
When Dr. Chain began to work
with Dr. Florey he read a tre-
mendous number of books on an-
ti-bacterial substances and despite
unfavorable accounts of the chem-
ical properties of this penicillin,
he began to start working on It
in his laboratory because it showed
promising characteristics.
Within six months, Dr. Chain
had produced a sufficient quantity
of penicillin and the very first
tests of mice and rabbits proved
that not only was It the strongest
antiseptic ever known, but that it
had absolutely no poisoning effect
Dr. Lowew's experiments with
drugs seeking to cure mysterious
allergies trace back a quarter of
a century. This year he announced
the perfection of anthallan, which
has not been thoroughly tested
yet, but which has produced amaz-
ing results in the initial trials.
After fleeing from Germany 13
years ago, Dr. Lowew came to
America and became a citizen in
1942. He spent many years in var.
ious centers and though he' is at
present a teacher at Utah Univer-
sity, his spadework with anthallan
was performed at Columbia Uni-
versity Presbyterian Hospital Med-
ical Center.
Whereas several new drugs have
lately appeared for hay fever suf-
ferers, their properties are credit-
ed with providing temporary re.
lief. Anthallan, however, is far
allergies. A promising start has
been made in this direction and
If the fondest hopes of the dis-
coverer are realized, Dr. Lowew's
name will be safely entrenched
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