Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry ( Time, Cover, July 14, 1958 ).

In 1958, George Beadle and Edward Tatum received the Nobel Prize for work in fungi showing that one gene produces one enzyme.

* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer

Dyson has six children, two of them ( Esther and George ) with his first wife, mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, and the other four with his second wife, Imme Dyson, a masters runner who married him in 1958.

George Edward Moore OM, FBA ( 4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958 ) was an English philosopher.

* 1873 – George Orton, Canadian athlete ( d. 1958 )

In 1958, Davis and Evans were back in the studio to record Porgy and Bess, an arrangement of pieces from George Gershwin's opera of the same name.

A series of critical academic books and articles, however, held in check any appreciable growth of anti-Stratfordism and Oxfordism, most notably The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined ( 1957 ), by William and Elizebeth Friedman, The Poacher from Stratford ( 1958 ), by Frank Wadsworth, Shakespeare and His Betters ( 1958 ), by Reginald Churchill, The Shakespeare Claimants ( 1962 ), by H. N. Gibson, and Shakespeare and His Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy ( 1962 ), by George L. McMichael and Edgar M. Glenn.

* January 10 – George Orton, Canadian athlete ( d. 1958 )

* American ( U. S. A .)— Baksa, Robert: Aria da Capo ( 1968 ); Bilotta, John George: Aria da Capo ( 1980 ); Blank, Allan: Aria da Capo ( 1958 – 60 ); Smith, Larry Alan: Aria da Capo ( 1980 )— all libretti by Edna St. Vincent Millay ( see above under Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues ).

George Baines was the grandfather of Johnson's mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson ( 1881 – 1958 ).

The Box – Muller transform ( by George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller 1958 ) is a pseudo-random number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed ( zero expectation, unit variance ) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers.

George Lucas's creation of R2-D2 was influenced by Akira Kurosawa's 1958 feature film The Hidden Fortress ( USA release 1962 ), particularly Tahei and Matakishi, the two comic relief characters that serve as sidekicks to General Makabe.

Greer Garson was born Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson in Manor Park, Essex, England in 1904, the only child of George Garson ( 1865 – 1906 ), a clerk born in London, but with Scottish lineage, and his wife, Nina ( née Nancy Sophia Greer ; died 1958 ).

An account of this instrument, and of the results of some early years of its operation, are given in Danjon's 1958 George Darwin Lecture to the Royal Astronomical Society ( in Monthly Notices of the RAS ( 1958 ), vol. 118, pages 411-431 ).

* George Stewart Henry ( 1871 – 1958 )

Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft.

* N. Gregory Mankiw ( born 1958 ), Harvard professor who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush.

In 1958, he guest starred in the premiere episode of NBC's Cimarron City western series, with George Montgomery and John Smith.

He was ordained on June 1, 1958 at the same Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church where he had heard George Buttrick preach four years earlier.

Major restorations and reconfigurations were carried out under architect George Pace of York, and the building was back in use in June 1958.

* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

Murchison had tried to purchase the Washington Redskins from Marshall in 1958.

He was videotaped when he spoke at the dedication of WRC-TV's new studios in Washington, D. C., on May 21, 1958.

*: 1958: International Conference on Scientific Information Washington DC included consideration of IR systems as a solution to problems identified.

See: Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information, 1958 ( National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 1959 )

* 1958 – Maria Cantwell, American politician, junior senator of Washington

Another incident occurred in 1958 in a game against the Washington Senators.

In 1958, Grissom received an official teletype message instructing him to report to an address in Washington, D. C. wearing civilian clothes.

* The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode ( Washington Square: New York University Press, 1958 )

In 1957, the Air Force cadets marched in the Inaugural Parade of President Dwight Eisenhower in Washington, D. C .. On 29 August 1958, the wing of 1, 145 cadets moved to the present site near Colorado Springs, and less than a year later the Academy received accreditation.

* Fewest own fumbles recovered, season: 2 ; Washington Redskins, 1958 ; Miami Dolphins, 2000.

Park Ridge obtained a portion of River Vale ( July 15, 1929 ), exchanged portions with Woodcliff Lake ( December 12, 1955 ), received part of Washington Township ( November 26, 1956 ), exchanged portions with Hillsdale ( February 10, 1958 ) and Woodcliff Lake ( June 9, 1958 ) and received another part of Washington Township ( August 11, 1958 ).

* Danny Lewis ( born 1936 ), NFL running back from 1958 – 66, playing for the Detroit Lions, the Washington Redskins, and the New York Giants.

After a lengthy lobbying campaign by area residents, the government in 1958 selected a site near Chantilly, Virginia, which is now Washington Dulles International Airport, instead of Burke.

The Seattle Youth Symphony's Marrowstone Music Festival-now called Marrowstone Summer Music and held on the campus of Western Washington University, in Bellingham, Washington – was held at Fort Flagler on the northern end of Marrowstone Island from 1958 until 1989.

Growth in East Bremerton necessitated the construction of another span across the Port Washington Narrows in 1958.

In 1958, Patricia " Patsy " Holt formed her first singing group, the Ordettes in her Philadelphia hometown, after being influenced by The Chantels and The Shirelles and solo female performers such as Mahalia Jackson and Dinah Washington.

Mount Washington continued FM broadcasting in 1958 with the construction of WMTW-FM 94. 9, which became WHOM in 1976.

* 1958 Guitar Recital Volumes 1 & 2 ( Delysé )

In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.

The decrees proposed by the amici curiae were filed in August of 1958.

The 1958 military pay act departed from this established formula by providing for a 6% increase rather than a proportionate increase for everyone retired prior to its effective date of June 1, 1958.

A summary of meteorite data, prepared by Whipple ( 1958 ) on the basis of photographic, visual, and radar evidence, is given in Table 5-1.

The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).

The mechanism of this coupling has been studied in some detail with non-enzymatic systems in vitro and can be simulated by certain di-iodotyrosine analogues ( Pitt-Rivers and James, 1958 ).

Developments up to about 1957 have been discussed by Sonenberg ( 1958 ).

The importance of knowing in what chemical forms the hormone may exist is accentuated by the recent observation that there exists an abnormally long-acting TSH in blood drawn from many thyrotoxic patients ( Adams, 1958 ).

In February, 1958, the patient suffered a myocardial infarction complicated by pulmonary edema.

In an attempt to reverse the downhill trend by stimulating the bone marrow and controlling any hemolytic component, triamcinolone, 16 mg. daily, was begun on Sept. 26, 1958, and continued until Feb. 18, 1959.

In attempting to improve specificity of staining, the fluorescein-labeled antisera used in both direct and indirect methods were treated in one of several ways: ( 1 ) They were passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and treated with acetone insoluble powders ( Coons, 1958 ) prepared from mouse liver or from healthy sweet clover stems or crown gall tissue produced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens ( E. F. Smith & Townsend ) on sweet clover stems.

Lacking the respected and effective institutions that consensus helps provide, minority parties, such as the P.D.I. in 1957 and the progressive Istiqlal faction in 1958, clamor for elections when out of power, but are not at all certain they wish to be controlled by popular choice when in power.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

In 1958, the Conference endorsed birth control as the responsibility laid by God on parents everywhere.

Vandiver opened his race for governor in 1958 with a battle in the Legislature against the issuance of $50 million worth of additional rural roads bonds proposed by then Gov. Marvin Griffin.

Both the BIH scale and A. 1 was defined by an epoch at the beginning of 1958: it was set to read Julian Date 2436204. 5 ( 1 January 1958 00: 00: 00 ) at the corresponding UT2 instant.

* Atlas, a van made by the Standard Motor Company ( UK ) 1958 – 62

There is also an underwater statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe here, created in 1958 by Armando Quesado in memory of a group of divers that died here.

* 1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

In 1950, the company announced the DB2, followed by the DB2 / 4 in 1953, the DB2 / 4 MkII in 1955, the DB Mark III in 1957 and the Italian-styled 3. 7 L DB4 in 1958.

The urban population in South Vietnam nearly tripled: from 2. 8 million people in 1958, to 8 million by 1971.