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...England star performers, brilliant writers, more or less celebrated scientists with strong personal views have borne the load. The best known books of Eddington, Jeans and Bertrand Russell are as much treatises on their personal philosophies as they are skilled explanations of Relativity and quantum mechanics. Biologist Julian Huxley, brother of Novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of the late great Evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley is noted for his opinions about Science & Society, and for exposing the anthropological fallacies of Nazi Aryanism, although he has written (with a collaborator) two general books for laymen. Simple Science and More Simple Science. Burly...
...eyed Biologist Julian Sorell Huxley predicted at Nottingham that the old dream of eugenists-human breeding by selected males and females only-would actually be put into practice within one or two generations. Said Dr. Huxley: "When people get used to the idea they will accept it just as they have accepted birth control...
...Childs Fund are to be: Yale's Medicine Dean Stanhope Bayne-Jones, a bacteriologist and Rockefeller Foundation protege; his predecessor as dean, Pathologist Milton Charles Winternitz, who at the American Medical convention announced new discoveries about the hardening of arteries; Rudolph John Anderson, biochemist; Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, biologist who began the artificial cultivation of living tissues, for which the Rockefeller Institute's Alexis Carrel is more famed; Rockefeller Institute's Francis Peyton Rous. whose discovery of a type of cancer (Rous's sarcoma) which can be transplanted from one chicken to another gave students...
...which are big enough to survive their flaming passage and land on earth. Meteoriticist Nininger was born 50 years ago in Kansas, in which a greater number of important meteorite finds have been made than in any other U. S. State. He started his scientific career, however, as a biologist. One night in 1923, while he was a biology professor at McPherson College in Kansas, he saw a shooting star so bright that he was sure some of it must have reached earth. The idea so excited him that he chucked biology for star-chasing forthwith...
...remain are Ivan Papanin, the leader, a former military commissar and leader of the fleet mutiny at Leningrad during the War, lately manager of the polar station at Franz Josef Land; Ernest Krenkel, who was radio officer with the Byrd Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930; Pyotor Shirshoff, hydro-biologist who was aboard the Chelyuskin; and Eugene Feoderoff, who has been studying magnetic waves in the Arctic for three years. They will have an immense assortment of equipment: four tons or so of powdered chicken and similar foodstuffs, brandy, tea, caviar, a windmill to generate electricity for power, light...