Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trial Rabbits. The Harvard experiments are a development from similar work on rabbits by Biologist Gregory Pincus at Clark University (TIME, March 12, 1934). Dr. Pincus, after fertilizing rabbits' eggs with sperm in glass, planted the resulting cells in a female rabbit's uterus and she bore normal, healthy bunnies.* Other investigators have nursed a monkey's egg, fertilized in its mother's body, to the eight-cell stage in glass. Six years ago Philadelphia's Cancer Specialist Stanley Philip Reimann, by pricking a human ovum with a glass needle, succeeded in stimulating...
...Patrick had been a student under great Biologist Thomas Huxley. He was one of those versatile men who are referred to every decade as "the last Renaissance man." When he felt that his scientific writings were detracting from his civic obligations, Geddes switched to town-planning and slum clearance in Edinburgh. Because he believed that Scotland owed a great debt to Hindu philosophy, Geddes taught hygiene and town-planning in India for ten years. He was "one of the fathers of modern geography," and author of such classic studies as The Evolution of Sex, Chapters in Modern Botany. The essential...
...does a spider stretch its legs? That question is an old zoologist baffler. Spiders have no leg-stretching muscles, yet they have an unquestioned ability to unflex all eight pedal extremities. A Caltech biologist, after long study, has finally solved the riddle: the answer is blood pressure...
With delicate and precise instruments, Biologist C. H. Ellis studied many kinds of spiders, including tarantulas and the poisonous black widow. Microscopic examination of their leg membranes, joints, tissues and nerves got him nowhere. But he noticed that even a dead spider leg would stretch if he squeezed it gently. He then injected liquids into spiders' legs with a superfine hypodermic and got some very satisfactory stretching. When he dehydrated spiders by keeping them for several weeks without water, they lost their stretching ability and walked with bent legs...
Robeson and his wife Eslanda, a biologist he met while at Columbia, settled down in London. In England he found equality, which he prized above homage. In 1934 he made the first of several visits to Russia. Russia impressed him even more than England: he had thought that race prejudice could never be entirely stamped out and "here was a country where it did not exist." In 1936 he put his nine-year old son, Paul Jr., to school in Russia because he did not want him to contend with race prejudice "until he is older and his father...