Word: biologicizing
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Dr. Riddle's great contribution to biology is the recognition and analysis of the major pituitary hormone prolactin, discovered in 1932. This substance is the stuff that makes mothers motherly. In Richmond last week Dr. Riddle and two of his ablest co-workers-Robert Wesley Bates, 34, and James...
"Some of the zoological textbooks of 30 years ago were dry," he writes, "but they were not rotten. Our effort is to learn why biological science has not obtained and maintained its proper place in our schools, and why great biologic truth is so little possessed by our people. We...
Thus Dr. Fermi holding a ball of paraffin in his hand symbolizes a matter of immense importance to biology. Organic substances are rich in hydrogen. Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California, whose huge apparatus produces a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second, finds that on...
Seven men suffer coronary thrombosis to one woman. Women are stricken later in life than men. A first attack kills them more often than it does men. But, if a woman survives such a heart attack, she may expect to live three years longer than a man similarly stricken and...
Births. Life's biologic processes went on, hastened by the stress & strain of disaster. In Milton, Pa. a baby was born in a high-school biology laboratory. In Kingstown, Pa. a woman gave birth in a street car. In Wilkes-Barre two were delivered in rescuing Army trucks. In...