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Caption: Book - Research on Campus (1949)
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The picture on the cover shows some of the sterile bottles in which penicillin and other antibiotics are grown in the Illinois laboratories. Chloromycetin, one of the four powerful antibiotics (the others are penicillin, streptomycin, and aureomycin), was discovered independently at Illinois. The effort goes on to produce new and more powerful antibiotics, and to find out more about how the antibiotics work. "Y^ Research at Illinois A UNIVERSITY is more than a teaching institution. It is a forward outpost in man's continuing attack upon the unknown. Research at the University of Illinois has led and is leading to important victories over ignorance, misunderstanding, and the brute forces of environment. Because men use instruments of measurement and control, the pictures in this booklet are often filled with impressive apparatus. T h e reader should not be misled by this circumstance. Men do research; apparatus assists them. T h e most important requirement for a sound and successful research program is a staff capable of firstrate work. T o emphasize this fact, our first picture shows the basic and irreducible resource required for any research: a man who is interested in it and competent to do it. T h e m a n shown is A. H . T a u b , Research Professor of Applied Mathematics. His interests are largely in the theory of relativity and in the shock waves which accompany, for example, the detonation of an explosive or the flight of a supersonic airplane. H e typifies all the Illinois staff members who are doing the research described below. Teaching and research are intimately related in the University. Students are taught by men who have themselves helped to create the knowledge they are imparting. Advanced students can use the remarkable facilities offered by the University for creative science and for scholarship: laboratories, experimental farms, a great research library. An institution offering such facilities UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BULLETIN VOLUME 46; NUMBER 63; APRIL, 1949. Published seven lin.es «NWII month l»y Ihr University of Illinois. Entered as second-class matter December II, I'M 1!, ,\^ Hie post ollice at Urbana, Illinois, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Ottice of I'ubliralion, :irill Administration Building, Urbana, Illinois. Page 1
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