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Harvard Prof To Speak Here
Prof. Phillipe LeCorbeiller, a professor of general education and applied physics at Harvard university, will speak at a convocation of the Engineering and Architecture school at 11 a.m. Thursday in Fraser theater.
His education includes graduation from the Polytechnic Institute in Paris, a doctor's degree in mathematics from the Sorbonne, a licentiate philosophy degree in 1938 and an honorary master's degree from Harvard.
Dr. LeCorbeller has also written a general science book on "Science and Civilization."
Professor LeCorbeiller will discuss "The Industrial Revolution of the Twentieth Century: Automatic Control," during the convocation which is open to the public.
He has written several books on electrical engineering including "Self-Maintained Oscillation," "Electro-Acoustics," "Electronic Tubes and Circuits," and "Matrix Analysis of Electronic Networks."
Dr. LeCorbeiller is a Frenchman by birth, and he served from 1920 to 1939 as a part of the French Ministry of Communications. Then he served as a member of the French government broadcasting agency for a year until World War II began.
He came to the United States in 1941 and became an instructor for the Army-Navy radio course at Harvard university. He served in this position until 1945 when he became a lecturer at Harvard. In 1949 he was promoted to his present position.
Sociology Magazine Placed on Circulation
The semester's first issue of "The Sociology Post," published by the Sociology club, was placed in circulation this week. A three-page newspaper, the publication carries articles on the death of Seba Eldridge, the annual dinner, the midwest meetings in Omaha, editorials, the sociology radio series and a list of the majors.
The paper was edited by Norm Storer, graduate student. Nino Lo Bello, instructor, is editorial advisor and Charles K. Warriner, instructor, is club faculty adviser. Harry Crockett, college senior, is club president.
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M. J. Gordon, chief aerodynamicist of the Beech Aircraft corporation, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Lindley auditorium on the aerodynamicist's part in aircraft design
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Mr. Gordon will also show a film on the development of the Beech safety shoulder harness. The harness's passengers' shoulders to prevent injury in minor accidents.
tical engineering, said that the development of the shoulder harness as the result of studies which determined the harness would prevent some injuries in both automobile and aircraft accidents.
Ammon S. Andes, associate professor of aeronautical engineering
Sasebo, Japan —(U.P.)—Capt. Warner Edsall, 48, skipper of the battleship Missouri, died of a heart attack yesterday while bringing his ship into Sasebo Naval base.
Battleship Skipper Dies
New York —(U.P.)—A research scientist gave the American public hope today that the day is in sight when paralytic polio will be fought with a vaccine to make it as rare a disease as small pox.
Scientist Develops New Polio Vaccine
But the scientist, who has reached the "experimental" stage with such a vaccine, urged anxious parents to sit tight. Careful study and tests still must be made before the vaccine can be pronounced a success or a failure.
Dr. Salk has given a detailed and thorough scientific account of his work to the medical profession in the Journal of the American Medical association. He told the public about it last night in a nationwide radio broadcast.
News of the important development came from Dr. Jonas E. Salk, director of the Virus Research laboratory of the University of Pittsburgh. He is bringing to its final stages a 15-year-old effort by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to find a vaccine that will give every man, woman, and child an immunity against polio.
Dr. Salk announced that the vaccine has been used safely and successfully in preliminary trials on 90 children and adults.
After being injected with the vaccine, the bodies of these persons produced the same amount of antibodies against all three types of polio as they would have produced if they had fought and survived attacks by the three polio viruses. It is by fighting and surviving disease-causing viruses that a body develops immunity to a disease.
Dr. Salk appealed to both doctors and the general public to take a "hands-off" policy toward the vaccine.
He said he is still testing the vaccine in human beings and plans to test it in many more in ensuing months. But, he emphasized, he is going to select the humans to be tested on a strictly scientific basis and only he and his associates will do the testing.
In his exhaustive scientific report to the medical profession, Dr. Salk revealed that as of the time the paper was written, the "experimental" vaccine had been tested in 161 humans for its ability to stimulate the production of antibodies.
The vaccine was put into two mediums-water and mineral oil. The former was injected into the skin, the latter into muscles. Water-based vaccine raised the antibody count appreciably only for one type of polio. But emulsified mineral oil vaccine raised it to approximately "natural immunity" level.
Enamel Workshop Slated for Summer
The Charles Bartley Jeffery Enamel workshop will be held June 8 to 13, sponsored by the department of design and the University Extension.
The fee for the course will be $20 with the class limited to 35 students. Enrollment blanks may be obtained in the design office, 324 Strong.
Mr. Jeffery is director of art at the Shaker Heights, Ohio Public schools and an instructor of enameling at the Cleveland Institute of Art. His work in enameling has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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