Word: barcroft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Barcroft, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, professor of Physiology in Cambridge University, and this fall the Dunham lecturer at Harvard, will speak on "The Constancy of the Internal Environment" this afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Harvard Medical School Amphitheatre, Building...
...Barcroft's topic for his series of lectures is "Some Features in the Architecture of Function." The opening one, on Monday, was entitled "Integrative Adaptation", on Friday he will discuss "The Principle of Antagonism"; and on Monday, "Stores of Material...
...London recently Professor Joseph Barcroft, world authority on chemical reactions of the blood, stepped out of a glass case. His face, arms, lips, ears and nose had turned blue. His torso was a barrel of barred indigo; his legs two uncertain aquamarine tendrils; even his nails were blue. He looked like a figure from a futuristic painting. But this blue man laughed, chatted and showed to admiring fellow-scientists the notes of observations he had made on his blood-reactions during the week he had spent in that glass case. His blueness was caused by the fact that the case...
Last week Professor Barcroft was appointed Professor of Physiology at Cambridge...