Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to being a playwright, music critic, economist and socialist soapboxer, Shaw has long fancied himself an amateur biologist. When Darwinian doctrine swept England like a Caribbean storm, Shaw thought it a creed "compared to which the" story of Noah was cheerful and encouraging," and-stoutly fought against Darwin's claim that there was no purposive mind behind the universe. Even those who thought he lost the battle of science should readily admit that he wins the battle of wits, hands down...
...Selman A. Waksman, 60, Russian-born Rutgers University biologist, discoverer of streptomycin, and Dr. Rene J. Dubos, 47, French-born Rockefeller Institute biologist, honored jointly for their pioneer work in antibiotics...
...biggest scientific fish in Communism's net, outside Russia, is British Biologist J.B.S. Haldane. Last week Haldane's scientific colleagues were watching closely to see if he would cling to the party line, recently clamped around some very dubious genetics (TIME, Sept. 6). Most scientists suspected that Haldane would have to go back on either his Communism or his science...
Back to Galileo. Western scientists are outraged by this Soviet attack upon scientific principle. It reminds them of Galileo, who was "disciplined" for asserting that the earth moves around the sun. They do not see how Haldane, who has enjoyed wide respect as a biologist and geneticist, can continue to toe the party line and remain a scientist...
...will work at the Institute, in the world's biggest institution for cancer research, showed visiting cancer specialists through the well-equipped laboratories. Said one biologist, who spotted a coffeepot heating over a Bunsen burner: "That's one piece of apparatus we're sure will work." But Dr. Cornelius P. ("Dusty") Rhoads, head of the Institute and of the affiliated Memorial Hospital, was more hopeful. Said he: "No one can predict from what source a major discovery will come. One can predict, however, with absolute certainty, that sound, careful, faithful investigation will justify itself in terms...