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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...
...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...
...Barghoorn and Tyler selected 800 promising samples and ground them to paper thinness. Studied under a microscope, they showed a great variety of organisms. Few of them resemble anything that still lives today, and their discoverers gave them such fanciful scientific names as Eoastrion (little dawn star), Kakabekia (after a waterfall in Ontario) and Eosphaera (dawn sphere...
Moser's call for a cold shoulder was cold-shouldered by most of his Yale colleagues. Robert Jackson, a specialist in Russian literature, called Moser's statement "irresponsible," and said that the university should be hospitable to obnoxious opinions. Even Frederick Barghoorn, who spent 16 days in a Moscow jail last year as an alleged U.S. spy, gulped and endorsed Rozhdestvensky's visit as a useful dialogue that explores rival opinions...