Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the story with which Rachel Carson opens her book about the sea. Like a television camera rolling through a museum of rare objects, The Sea Around Us focuses on almost everything connected with the world's oceans: their origins, history, inhabitants and mysteries. Miss Carson, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, writes lucidly and has a gift for popularizing without talking down to her readers...
...find out how rhodopsin works, Biologist Wald extracted a protein called opsin from the eyes of freshly killed animals and mixed it with vitamin A and two enzymes (organic catalysts): alcohol oxidase (from horse livers) and cozymase (from yeast). When this mixture is placed in the dark, the enzymes convert the vitamin A to retinene, a yellow pigment. Then the retinene combines with the opsin to form bright red rhodopsin...
Former undergraduates who were named as Junior Fellows are Robert H. Dyson, Jr. '50 of Toronto, Ulrich E. Kruse '50 of Milwaukee, and Lowry Nelson, Jr. '47 Minneapolis. These men concentrated in Anthropology, Physics, and Comparative Literature respectively. Taylor. A. Steeves of East Weymouth, a biologist, received his B.S. at the University of Massachusetts in 1947 and his M.A. at Harvard...
...Hurricane. The faculty was stunned to find that the list included not only young, newly appointed instructors, but also such top, long-established men as English Professor Nathan C. Starr and Biologist Paul A. Vestal. The fact that the firings had been made by trustee formula did not soothe faculty feelings. Why, the faculty wanted to know, were the top professors not consulted? Why did the cuts have to be so drastic? Why had Wagner stuck by the formula when he knew that he was eliminating some of his ablest and most popular...
...grandson of the famed biologist, Agassiz died February 5 at his home in Dedham...