Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over 300 scientists last night came to hear two Harvard men and a University of Chicago professor speak on the question. "Is the concept of Science different in Biology from what it is in the Physical Sciences?" In this symposium, the first meeting of the Boston Society of Biologists held at M.I.T., President Conant spoke for the chemist, Dr. Philipp G. Frank, lecturer on Physics and Mathematics, represented his fields and Dr. Paul Weiss, professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago, took the biologist's viewpoint...
...speaker came to apologize for biology and the other two to excuse his apologies," the two and a half hour meeting brought forth the alleged differences between the sciences. Frank pointed out that the theoretical physicist is faced with much the same sort of problem as is the biologist when the former attempts to explain complicated physical phenomena. Conant subscribed by adding that the very "success of physics was that it had by-passed the really difficult problems...
...Evidence of Mayan penetration into Canada. 86. From his work on frogs and rabbits, French Biologist Jean Rostand regards as a frightening possibility human parthenogenesis, or: 1. Virgin birth...
Public health in Winslow's youth was largely limited to water supply and sewage disposal (both of which the Romans had been good at 2,000 years earlier), plus vaccinations against smallpox and faltering efforts to halt the spread of infectious diseases. Biologist Winslow, who lists himself as a "sanitarian," worked in the state health departments of Massachusetts and New York, then moved on in 1915 to a full-dress professorship in public health at Yale...
Using all the situations that have won it enthusiastic listeners in four years as a top-rated radio show, Miss Brooks presents Schoolteacher Eve Arden in hot pursuit of a biologist who appears more interested in frogs than in girls. Also on hand for laughs: a hot-tempered principal, an absent-minded landlady, two nitwit teenagers...