Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biologist is not necessarily too grumbly about this--or at least I should not like to have you think that he is. He is perfectly able to accept, for a time being, a system of kinetc equations embracing the data of photosynthesis as picturing the known essence of the mechanism of this process. He also wants to learn the molecular inwardness of the matter, the kinetic mechanism with all its defects serving as a ladder toward specific experimental inquiry. He is not so crude as to look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when...
They live in a brick-glass, fluorescent-lighted palace with individual and family-size eages. When a biologist operates on them, an anaesthetist always stands by with a tankful of other. The rats lives are regulated according to the most scientific methods of bodily discipline...
William H. Drury, Jr., biologist, of Newport, Rhode Island, A.B. Harvard, 1942; A.M. Harvard...
...troubles really started when he got on his hind legs. So says Russian Biologist S. D. Antipin, until last week head of the department of general biology at the Kishinev Medical Institute...
Jackson Pollock's painting Number Eleven, pictured in the Art section of TIME [Feb. 7], interpreted by Sam Hunter of the New York Times as "cathartic disintegration," is nothing of the sort. Any biologist will tell him that Mr. Pollock made a subconscious endeavor to paint a jumble of spermatozoa, probably of bovine origin. He must have seen these animalcules under the microscope or in a picture at one time. That past experience in the subconscious mind of the artist has forced him to splurge them on canvas at a moment of "high tension." If there has been...