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Otto Yulevich Shmidt is a bearded Soviet academician, mathematician and Polar explorer. At the age of 56 he is also a man of remarkable longevity...
...scientist-darling of Communist theologians is Soviet Academician Trofim Denisovich Lysenko. Lysenko's basic idea seems to be that living forms (like nations) need to be shaken up by a kind of genetic revolution. Thus shaken, a tomato or wheat plant is capable of very rapid development. In proving this thesis, Lysenko is short on controlled experimentation and long on thundering Marxist phrases like "The Liquidation of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). Many non-Communist geneticists consider him a politically motivated fraud...
...Geneva knew her as a plump, black-eyed Russian physiologist named Lina Stern. She loved to putter in her laboratory all day and dance all night. A brilliant scientist, Lina was already a full professor (of physiological chemistry) at the University of Geneva. Friend of many a globe-trotting academician, she spoke fluent Russian, French and English. In 1925, fun-loving Physiologist Stern decided to go to Moscow, where, she said, she could pursue science in "a society built on scientific principles...
Life Begins at 50. After four long years, Rouault quit his job to study with famed Academician Gustave Moreau. Moreau taught young Rouault all he knew about painting and did his best to break Rouault's habit of moping about in cemeteries after school. When Moreau died, his house was turned into a memorial museum and Rouault, as the favorite pupil, was appointed curator. The sinecure kept Rouault going; his art sold hardly at all until he was past...
Phoenix to Floats. The principal decoration was a 15-foot phoenix in the middle of the dance floor, contrived out of wood and paper by Royal Academician Frank Dobson. Around it were parked half a dozen floats run up by various groups during the evening. At midnight the lights in the hall went out and blue spots played down dramatically from the four corners of the hall onto the phoenix, whose wings began flapping while its green eyes blazed. As the band played Auld Lang Syne, Big Ben's chimes were piped over the loudspeakers. Onto the crowded floor...