Freiburg / Washington / D.C. / Boston / Mulheim / Ludwigshafen / Chicago / /
Company
Langer / American Cyanamid Company / Organogenesis Inc. / I. G. Farben Industrie / Rubber Reserve Company / Norton / DuPont Corporation / John Wesley Hyatt / Dreyfus Foundation Inc. / /
Continent
America / Europe / /
Country
France / Germany / United States / Greece / /
Currency
GBP / /
Event
Employment Change / Patent Filing / /
Facility
Milan Polytechnic Institute / Max Planck Institute / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / /
IndustryTerm
Biotechnology firms / inorganic chemicals / yday products / artificial rubber / rubber supply / natural gas / rne chemicals / plastics / chemical reactions / plastic food conta iner / sonance imaging scanners / chemical bonding / chemicals / chemical bonds / chemical messages / harsh chemicals / Similar slow-delivery systems / chemical messengers / controlled drug delivery technology / rubber tree plantations / rubber / chemical characteristics / chemical inertness / polymer systems / synthetic rubber / chemical trust / wound site / long chains / Industrial applications / research / transportation revolution / treatment for brain cancer / polymer networks / chemical terms / rubber trees / /
MedicalCondition
thereby halting tumor / mo st malignant brain cancers / burns / tumor’s / prostate cancer / unwanted bacterial infection / tumor / cancer / tumors / diabetes / endometriosis / kidney failure / infection / severe bone infections / R many diseases / chronic high blood sugar / cancerous tumors / rd-to-heal skin ulcers / diabetic skin ulcers / brain cancer / /
MedicalTreatment
brain surgery / cancer surgery / surgery / organ transplants / chemotherapy / organ transplant / /
NaturalFeature
Indies / /
Organization
Duke Cancer Center / Dreyfus Foundation / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Institute for Coal Research / Polytechnic Institute / Medical Institut / Cornell / National Academy of Sciences / Institute for Macromolecular Chemistr / U.S. Food and Drug Administration / Max Planck Institute for Coal Research / Stanford / /
Person
Frank DiSesa / Charles Vacanti / Kurt Meyer / Charles A. Vacanti / Karl Ziegler / John Wesley / Charles Goodyear / Robert W. Lenz / Joseph Le Bel / Theodor Svedberg / Peter Debye / Joseph Vacanti / William Vining / Michael Colvin / Louis Ménard / Jeffery L. Platt / Leo Baekeland / Brem Colvin / Paul Flory / Rocco Polistina / Langer Vacanti / Robert Langer / Jean Bo / Wallace Hume Carothers / Archibald S. Couper / Edward Schmitt / Robert L. Kruse / Frank Baker / M. Judah Folkman / Fr / Giulio Natta / John Dalton / Vincenzo Bisceglie / Bruce Rosen / Friedrich Kekulé / Herman Mark / Richard Stein / David J. Tenenbaum / Hermann Staudinger / /
Position
first polymer chemist / brain cancer surgeon / biologist / science writer / Fu rt / surgeon / chemist / co rt / organic chemist / first Physician / microbiologist / chemical engineer / director / emergen cy medicine specialist / /
Product
nitro / TNT / /
ProvinceOrState
Massachusetts / /
Region
East Indies / /
Technology
controlled drug delivery technology / tissue engineering / chemotherapy / technology of polymers / technology of high polymers / Biotechnology / polymerization / transplantation / /
This article was published in 1999 and has not been updated or revised. PO LYMERS AN D PEO PLE I