Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International (U.S. & Canadian) Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission was formed in 1937, and ten years later had completed concrete fishways around the impassable stretches to help the salmon go upriver. Each year since then, the fish have swarmed back in ever-greater numbers (TiME, Oct. 3). Loyd A. Royal, U.S. biologist who heads the commission's scientific staff, believes that after a few more spawning cycles (four years), the annual catch will top 25 million, divided equally between fishermen of both countries...
...standard chore in biological laboratories is weighing the experimental animals (e.g., mice and guinea pigs) to record their rate of growth. Biologist David Marshall Prescott, 27, of the University of California does this chore too, but his experimental animals are amoebas, and they weigh only ten billionths of a gram each...
Though a few psychiatrists have applauded the sex studies of Biologist Alfred C. Kinsey, most have opposed his work, largely on the ground that he was muscling in on their territory without sufficient qualifications. One who formerly backed Kinsey for his research on males has now turned against him: Topeka's famed Dr. Karl A. Menninger. Last week, before 160 mind-doctors and their guests at an American Psychiatric Association dinner in St. Louis, the two battled...
...value." On the allegation that he translates data from the animal kingdom into human sexuality, Kinsey countered that he had not tried to draw analogies. Anyhow, he added: "Animal data are ignored in no other branch of medicine [than psychiatry]. It is apparently a disgrace to be a biologist, a disgrace to be a scientist. It is a sorry day for psychiatry when it publicly disclaims any connection with science...
When the war was over, the Society went back to more scholarly pursuits. In 1948, members were involved with problems of uniqueness and interpolation in mathematics, and the magnetic moments of nucleii in physics. A biologist was working on slime molds, an historian on a History of Bukhara translated from the Persian, and a sociologist on a study of modern radicalism. Today, the humanists are still holding strong despite the tendency of the scientists to swamp them. One is now informally attending the Law School to get background for medieval constitutional history. Another is trying to make some "connections between...