Word: biologist
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...small, resurrects a greater mankind out of misery and suffering, transmutes truth into happiness, takes the patient plodding of the laboratory worker and converts it into human smiles and laugh ter." The A. A. A. S. confirmed Dr. Schwitalla's enthusiasm by electing Princeton's Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin to be president year after next. Among the reports which years hence may contribute to a "greater mankind'' were the following...
...last week's Nobel Prize he has raised a family. Three sons live with him and Frau Spemann at Freiburg: one, a biologist; another, an architect; the third, an artist. A daughter is the wife of Professor Ernst Cloos, Johns Hopkins geologist...
...realize, of course, my dear MacBride, that you stand against the opinion of practically the whole biological world." It was not that Dr. MacBride could not stomach the fundamental fact of organic evolution. Probably no sane biologist, and certainly none of Dr. MacBride's calibre, remains unconvinced that all complex forms of life have arisen from simpler organisms. It was the mode of evolution that Dr. MacBride disputed. He is an ardent Lamarckist, believing that certain acquired characteristics can be inherited. For that reason he sticks out like a heterodox thumb in Britain as Duke University's venerable...
...while typing out her novels, Author Baldwin slaves and suffers over her work, cuts and revises in her striving for narrative smoothness and speed. A great admirer of the work of her friend Naomi Mitchison, painstaking historical novelist, Author Baldwin confesses to serious intellectual interests, would rather be "a biologist, an obscure scientist, an actress, a doctor, an explorer" than the most rapidly rising U. S. writer of popular magazine fiction...
Acidophilus bacilli are the germs which the late great Russian Biologist Elie Metchnikoff recommended as an aid to digestion and longevity. They live and reproduce in every person's mouth, as well as in his bowels. But they do not attack the teeth of a masticator until his natural immunity to them drops below a certain level. Seven out of every hundred people retain such immunity throughout life; ten are born lacking it entirely; and 83 retain it only if they eat sensibly. Gist of Dentist Bunting's remarks last week before the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts...