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Scientific discoveries form in glass test tubes
after perhaps 30 years of work and one second
of luck.
The importance of test tubes was realized early
in the colorful scientific career of Dr. Viktor W .
Nowinski, Polish scientist who has been at the
University of Texas School of Medicine for the
past two and a half years. He became acutely
aware of the test tube when shortages turned up
in England before the war. So there he learned the
delicate art of glass blowing. Thus, he began saving
time of those “perhaps 30 years of work’ which
someday may lead to a second of luck on two
phases of his present work.
One of his studies deals with finding a chemical
test—in a test tube—that would give immediate
diagnosis to schizophrenia. The other study con-
cerns cell growth to learn why some grow wild
and others do not with a possible knowledge of
application of why cancer cells develop.
As Dr. Nowinski works in his crowded labora-
tory on the fourth floor of the state psychopathic
building, he sips coffee from a beaker poured from
a flask and contemplates one success that also took
years of work—the English translation of his
Spanish textbook.
It was in Argentina that Dr. Nowinski, in col-
laboration with two colleagues, began work on the
text, “General Cytology,” first published in Span-
ish in 1946. It was reprinted with revisions in 1948
in English, a second edition coming three months
after the first. An American professor said of the
work, “No other single text of similar content with
which it might be compared and, in fact, one of its
virtues, is that it brings together diverse aspects of
modern cytology in a well written, lucid and inter-
esting style.” Praise has been given the text in
French and British journals.
Writing the first text in Spanish came easy to
the cosmopolitan, well traveled Dr. Nowinski. He
speaks seven languages and reads many more, one
of his chief interests, outside his work, being
classic literature of France, England, Poland, Rus-
sia, Spain and Italy.
Dr. Nowinski has learned that a steady grind of
test tube work must have its diversions. So more
than 20 years ago he took up magic. While in
England, he was a member of the exclusive Magi-
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Maceo, Sam & Llewellyn, Edwin E. Galveston Isle, Volume 3, Number 1, July 1949, periodical, July 1949; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1427495/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.