Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...menacing form depicted in this dramatic photograph is not some giant glob of man-eating protoplasm from a science-fiction film. It is actually a hamster's kidney cell magnified 15,000 times by a scanning electron microscope. Such scientific snapshots taken by Caltech Biologist Jean-Paul Revel may offer an important clue to a mystery that has long puzzled scientists: how a living cell moves across a surface. The cell's perambulations, Revel says, are apparently made possible by a strange phenomenon called "ruffling...
...sworn affidavit, a Kansas State University biologist told the court this week that a study he made for KP&L last spring was only intended as a description of the plant site. KP&L has said that the biologist. Richard Marzov. did a comprehensive environmental impact report of the planned power plant...
...shadows of the larger crisis have loomed over the U.S. for years. Back in the '50s, the Paley Report, commissioned by President Eisenhower, pinpointed a coming shortage of oil and coal. The warnings increased in tempo in the '60s. Biologist Paul Ehrlich was among the decade's many Cassandras. "Using straight mathematics," he now says, "what I was predicting then was foreseeable in the late '40s and early '50s. It was a case of simple multiplication-the number of people times what we were doing...
...socialist, Medvedev remains a committed Marxist-Leninist. Even though he was expelled from the Party in 1969 for his writings about Stalin, he is respected both by dissidents and many orthodox Communists. Shortly after Medvedev's expulsion, Soviet authorities tried to have his twin brother, Zhores, a brilliant biologist, declared insane for writing a critical book about Stalin's crackpot geneticist, T.D. Lysenko...
...training as a marine biologist (Ph.D. from Stanford, professorship at the University of Washington) hardly qualified her to set nuclear policy or equipped her to deal with the Byzantine ways of Capitol Hill politics. But she obviously learns fast. James Schlesinger (now Defense Secretary) strongly recommended her to succeed him when he left the AEC chairmanship to become CIA director last winter. Her greatest asset, he said, would be "balancing the demands of energy and environment." President Nixon, who had been looking for women to fill high federal posts, agreed; in February he appointed Ray to head the five...