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After long years of work in a jumbled, gadget-filled laboratory at St. Louis University, a biologist announced 14 years ago some results of his experiments with the mysterious forces of life & death. Basile J. Luyet, a priest of the order of missionaries of St. Francis de Sales, had succeeded in freezing onion skin and other plant tissue into a state of suspended animation: reheated, his experimental tissues began to grow again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep-Freeze | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...ruling specifically would declare taxable money awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation to a chemistry professor for study of structural chemistry, to a writer to complete a novel, to a biologist to study aquatic fungi, and to a social scientist for research on the relations betwen government and economic processes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Internal Revenue Dept. Ponders Fellowship Tax | 3/11/1952 | See Source »

...University biologist began his study of metamorphosis ten years ago and concentrated his experiments on the change of form of a moth species...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life Magazine Features Work Of Williams in Metamorphosis | 2/9/1952 | See Source »

Southern Californians have grown used to the captain's doings. At 76, he is a leathery, laconic philanthropist whose personal fortune has been a source of never-ending wonders. He is a marine biologist, an aviator, a sea captain, a locomotive engineer, an accomplished cellist. In his own way, he is also something of an educator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Keep Moving | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...explained that he had always been a "biologist" at heart, and never a sailor. "Being a member of the Imperial family," he said, "I had no freedom of choosing my vocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Love & the Chickens | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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