While at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center in San Diego in 1994, he discovered a new way to get the immune system in rats to go after cancer, and shortly thereafter he moved to UCLA to try it in humans with brain cancer.
Then he discovered a new Japanese method of cutting diamonds: When viewed under a low-magnification (3x) lens, the stone refracted light in such a way as to give off a pattern of eight heart-shaped sparkles at the bottom of the diamond and eight arrow-shaped fire-bursts through the top--hence the name "hearts-and-arrows" diamonds.
Police believe Esack was violent towards his wife even before their six-year marriage broke up and the abuse moved to another level when he discovered she had found a new love.
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In 1938, Roy Plunkett of DuPont was trying to make a new refrigerant when he discovered Teflon.
Every time Fenelon built a new prototype, he discovered ways to improve it.
But he had found a New Testament at his piano teacher's and discovered, as he read it, that he seemed to know this story already.
What Dr Shechtman had discovered, he realised, was a new sort of material called a quasicrystal.
He discovered the problem when he went to post a new entry on Friday morning, and says it's also making him rethink his TypePad subscription.
He soon discovered the power of a crowd, as his new group's debut (The Beginning Stages of the Polyphonic Spree) sounded unlike anything in rock music.
He did add that new fragments of the papyrus recently were discovered, and they may allow for more of the story to be deciphered.
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Mr. MAX MUTCHLER (Space Telescope Science Institute): About the middle of June, he gave it to me, and within a day, I discovered these two new moons.
He later took classical lessons and was "discovered" at age 9 by the late New York City jazz aficionado Charles McWhorter, who saw him play at a festival in Siberia.
Mr. Lieto, the New York businessman, discovered the frustrations an innocent party can face as he worked for months to keep open his check-cashing business after federal agents seized his firm's working capital.
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Community leader Victor Tapia discovered the new transit system did not run to his old place of employment and he was forced to change jobs.
Before Robert Evans was discovered at a Hollywood swimming pool by the aging Norma Shearer, he was a garmento from New York with swarthy good looks and the confidence of a lion.
The doctor who discovered PSA, Richard Ablin, created a furor this year when he said, in a New York Times op-ed, that as a screen of healthy people the test does more harm than good.
Lily-Mae's family were even more surprised when the discovered that Elton John had recorded a personal message for Lily-Mae while he was on tour in New York.
We have a real estate tycoon who still thinks he can be president, and New York remains a great place to write a first novel, get discovered in a one-act play, or play guitar outside in your underpants.
Once I discovered how much of a character he had become online I was really able to appreciate him in a whole new way and get into the role.
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