Word: biologist
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...Smithsonian's biologist, Charles O. Handley, authority on African mammals, writing in the Washington Post: "Ardrey has approached his subject with rare insight. He has not suffered the restrictions or prejudices of any particular discipline. He has marshaled the facts with the precision of a scientist, has viewed them with the impartiality of a judge and has presented them with an arresting and intelligible style...
...desert-such as they are-have also made a comeback. Great disks of land that nuclear explosions wiped clear of plants are now covered again. Seeds in the ground apparently were not killed: some bomb-denuded places bloomed during the following spring with unusually luxuriant growths of tumbleweed. Biologist Lora Shields of New Mexico Highlands University, who is studying the site's resurgent biology, says that the spherical tumbleweeds rolled across the denuded sites scattering their seeds, and found the atomized soil exactly to their liking. So far, no atom-induced plant mutations have appeared, and trees...
...University of Chicago's Latvian-born Anita Rozlapa, 22, fled at the age of five with her family from the Russians and lived in a German D.P. camp until she was eleven. "I loved woods and flowers," she recalls, "and some said I could become a biologist." Instead, brought to the U.S. by a suburban Chicago couple, small, bright Refugee Rozlapa fell in love with Spanish at La Grange (Ill.) High School. With a George M. Pullman Scholarship, she wound up at Chicago, where she was Spanish Club president and earned a better than 3.7 average...
...fifth President, Mary I. Bunting pointed out in her Inaugural Address a year later, "The cartoonists did not precisely call the shots. They did not portray a white-coated figure shoving aside microscope and test-tube cultures to examine the culture on a woman's campus, a myopic biologist diverted from the study of heredity and variation in micro-organisms to stumble upon the astonishing mechanism of human evolution, our modern, creative multi-structured institutions of ever higher education...
Discussing nuclear '"deterrents" with a Yale group in New Haven, Conn., British Biologist Sir Julian Huxley said: "I prefer to call them 'detergents' because we must not forget their awesome capability of literally cleaning us off the globe...