Word: barre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr., director of collections, Museum of Modern Art, New York City . . . D.F.A...
...free lectures, which are open to the public, will be held each night at 8 p.m. in the James Barr Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall...
Exquisite Chemistry. Geneticists who looked through microscopes at chromosomes taken from cell nuclei had noticed long ago that in some of their slides there was an unusually dark spot. Not until 1949 did Canada's Dr. Murray Llewellyn Barr realize that the spot appeared only in female cells. This discovery alone was invaluable for determining the true or nuclear sex in many cases involving various degrees of hermaphroditism.* But what was the spot...
...also won Dr. Barr an award from the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation (TIME...
...Murray Llewellyn Barr, 54, at the University of Western Ontario, was busily studying the cells in the hypoglossus (tongue-controlling nerve) of the female cat when he realized that a little dark spot in each nucleus was never found in the cells of males. Then he learned that this was true of all mammals, including man. Now, a tiny pinch of skin or mucous membrane, examined under the microscope, will show the true, or nuclear, sex. Only such a test will indicate whether a child with a sex-chromosome abnormality should be raised as a boy or a girl...