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Last week Biologist John Robert Raper of Harvard turned up with something new under the scientific sun-a clear demonstration of the function in plants of hormones which are not growth hormones but sexual. The host: Achlya ambisexualis, a minute water fungus which Dr. Raper discovered some time ago in the Charles River...
Died. Charles Rupert Stockard, 60, famed biologist, president of the board at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, longtime head of the anatomy department at Cornell University's Medical College; of heart disease; in Manhattan. After a 17-year experiment with guinea pigs, Dr. Stockard asserted that a moderate consumption of alcohol is good for the human race...
...scientists receive very low salaries, for the Institute's income barely supports it. Dr. Plotz, who proved that measles is a virus disease, is now working on a measles serum, recently developed a new modern type of smallpox vaccination. He works in the laboratory of the late famed Biologist Elie Metchnikoff, who received a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on immunity. > Professor Gaston Ramon, square-built, square-bearded son of a farmer, who lives surrounded by 400 horses at the Institute's annex in Garches. He makes tremendous quantities of serums against diphtheria, bubonic plague, tetanus...
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These are a few of the very many very personal opinions of John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, extraordinary British biologist, prophet and philosopher. His scientific specialty is the application of mathematics to biology, a field in which he has won some renown. A bald, burly, tweedy, shaggy man, he admits he is dogmatic. His reputation for epigrammatic discourse is such that on his travels reporters swarm around him, work him for quotable gems...