Word: barghoorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper presented Thursday at a Geological Society of America meeting in Kansas City, Mo., Barghoorn detailed the discovery of tiny organic fossils in pre-Cambrian rock. A radio isotope test proved that the rod-like bacteria were at least three billion years...
...Elso S. Barghoorn, Professor of Botany and curator of the paleobotanical collection at Harvard, has apparently pushed back the evolutionary clock a billion years...
...Barghoorn found the black rock near Barbetorn, South Africa on an expedition last year. He then brought the specimens back to Harvard where he discovered the fossils, 50,000ths of an inch in length, with an electron microscope...
...Barghoorn was assisted in the project by J. William Schopf, a third year graduate student in Biology...
...best sermon. Rather than talk about the evils of racial prejudice, he took a seat on the first freedom ride and ended up in jail. He was one of the most effective recruiters for Aaron Henry's 1963 FDP campaign in Mississippi. When Russian studies professor Frederick C. Barghoorn was detained in Russia, he organized the protest...