Thomas Huckle Weller
Thomas Huckle Weller 1915-2008, American microbiologist and physician, b. Ann Arbor, Mich., B.A. Univ. of Michigan, 1936, M.D. Harvard, 1940. In 1936 he began teaching at Harvard, and as a specialist in tropical medicine he became professor in the school of public health in 1954. Together with J. F. Enders and F. C. Robbins he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work in growing polio viruses in cultures of different tissues. He also isolated the chicken pox and shingles viruses and collaborated in the isolation of the rubella (German measles) virus. This work led to the development of vaccines for these diseases. From 1966 to 1981, he was director of Harvard's Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases.
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Carnation Revolution withers: Phil Davison finds the new Portugal a let-down for the men who won it freedom 20 years ago
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/25/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...convoy of armoured cars and forced the surrender of Marcello Caetano. Caetano had inherited power in 1968 from the ailing Antonio...had ruled by fear for four decades. Like Salazar, Caetano used the secret police to keep a lid on opposition...
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Portugal's Ex-President Americo Tomas Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/19/1987; 470 words
; ...liberalization policies proposed by Marcello Caetano, who succeeded Salazar after the...and managed to slow down reforms Caetano sought in the one-party state...to bring an end to the Salazar-Caetano regime. On April 25, 1974, the...
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AMERICO TOMAS, 92; LAST PRESIDENT OF OUSTED PORTUGUESE DICTATORSHIP
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/20/1987; ; 479 words
; ...foe of liberalization proposals raised by Marcello Caetano, who succeeded Salazar in 1968. Salazar...a coup on April 25, 1974. Mr. Tomas and Caetano were exiled to Brazil, where Caetano died in 1980 at age 74. Mr. Tomas, cleared...
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ANGOLA-CHRONOLOGY: LOGBOOK OF DESPAIR AND HOPE
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 11/10/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...regime headed by Prime Minister Marcello Caetano and President Americo Thomaz...Forces, dismissed months before by Caetano owing to his unequivocal opposition...The leaders, Nito Alves and Caetano Joao Jacobo, two legendary commanders...
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Portuguese coup celebrations marked by political fireworks: 20th anniversary rally provides a platform for economic dissent, writes Phil Davison in Lisbon
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/26/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...then aged 29, who won the surrender of the dictator, Marcello Caetano, without firing a shot. Major Salgueiro Maia was virtually...dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, and then Caetano. Former agents of the dictatorship's hated PIDE secret...
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IRAQ-PORTUGAL: AZORES A KEY STOP ON U.S. TROOPS' ROUTE TO IRAQ
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 3/11/2003; 700+ words
; ...1969 and his replacement by a more liberal dictator, Marcello Caetano, a period of greater tranquillity began and no more...Lajes. The leftist military coup of April 1974 ousted Caetano, and the revolutionary period extended until November...
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PORTUGAL: EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION? 30 YEARS ON
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 4/26/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...in Portugal's history but the shortest for dictator Marcello Caetano, who was awakened at 05.00 local time by his secretary...Antonio de Oliveira Salazar in a 1926 military coup. Caetano, who succeeded Salazar in 1969, and figurehead president...
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Pebble in the shoe
Magazine article from: The World Today; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...s fate changed in April 1974, when the Armed Forces Movement took power in Portugal, ending the dictatorship of Marcello Caetano. For well over a decade, Lisbon had been waging a bitter campaign to hold onto its five African colonies, whose...
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European Portugal: The Difficult Road to Sustainable Democracy.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...initial coup that ousted the long-term, authoritarian-corporatist regime of Antonio Salazar and his successor, Marcello Caetano, was not at first committed to democracy. The we!l-organized Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) sought to hijack...
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PORTUGAL: MALE EXECUTIVES CONTINUE TO DOMINATE LARGEST FIRMS.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 4/17/2008; 700+ words
; ...disappear because the constitution was amended." The Estado Novo dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and Marcello Caetano lasted from 1933 to 1974. This phenomenon "has to do with the asymmetries of society and culture, and not with...
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Marcello Caetano
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Marcello Caetano , 1906-80, Portuguese lawyer and statesman. He received a doctorate...anti-Communism, he initiated modest political and economic reforms. Caetano's government was overthrown by a military coup in Apr., 1974, and...
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Caetano, Marcello José das Neves Alves
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Caetano, Marcello José das Neves Alves (1904–81) Portuguese statesman. He was Prime...putsch which brought to an end half a century of dictatorship in Portugal, established by Caetano's predecessor, SALAZAR .
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Mário Soares
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...New State" and the six-year successor regime of Marcello Caetano (1968-1974) drew the opposition of M á rio...the economy, young military officers overthrew the Caetano regime on April 25, 1974. Known as the Armed Forces...
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António de Oliveira Salazar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...devoted considerable resources to the attempt to suppress revolts in Portugal's African colonies. In 1968, Salazar suffered a severe stroke and was replaced as premier by Marcello Caetano . Bibliography: See study by H. Kay (1970).
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António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...joined other dissatisfied officers in the Armed Forces movement, which helped overthrow the dictatorial regime of Marcello Caetano . As the revolutionary regimes became more radical in 1975, he emerged as a leader of the centrist officers, and...
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