Hemoglobin is an iron-containing protein found in the blood of nearly all vertebrates and many invertebrates. It transports oxygen from the lungs or gills of an animal to the tissues. Four polypeptide chains, each wrapped in a specific way around its own heme group, make up the hemoglobin molecule.
Correction Appended. Alger Hiss, the erudite diplomat and Harvard-trained government lawyer who was convicted of perjury in an espionage case that became one of the great riddles of the Cold War, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He was 92 and lived in Manhattan.
Herbert Hans Haupt, a German-born naturalized U.S. citizen, was the last person executed for treason in the United States. He was convicted in 1942 by a military tribunal after being named as a German spy by fellow German spies who were defecting to the U.S. He died in the District of Columbiaâs electric chair.