Word: biologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pure sciences, because its devotees may juggle their symbols without regard to reality. But: "It may happen that the mathematician will pass on a theorem to the physicist, who uses it and passes it on to the chemist, who in turn uses it and passes it on to the biologist. Ultimately, the cure of a disease may result. . . . Sir Isaac Newton to a large extent worked on calculus to explain some phases of astronomy, but his findings now-more than 250 years later-are applied to calculating width of a brake lining to stop a motor car of a certain...
...fast scientific stride Biologist William Firth Wells, industrious instructor of sanitary science at the Harvard School of Public Health, has made oyster eggs germinate artificially and by means of artificial sunlight made germs vanish from thin air. Last week after working persistently against smaller & smaller forms of life, Biologist Wells was able to announce that by means of ultraviolet light he destroys the minuscule cause of influenza as it floats...
...Biologist Wells's Harvard experimental laboratory is a steel, glass-lined tank big as a dentist's operating room. Within is a mercury quartz lamp which emits ultraviolet light. The air within the tank Mr. Wells can make as pure or as germ-laden as he pleases...
Last week mice-breeding Biologist Clarence Cook Little of Bar Harbor, Me., published in the American Medical Association Journal facts about the inheritance of cancer which mice taught him. Fundamentally, they proved that the tendency to cancer is inherited, just as are brown eyes or curly hair. Cancer can be bred out of a family by marriages into noncancerous families...
...cartoon was less funny than the comments with which Dr. Abbot dressed up an astrophysical lecture in Rochester a few months ago. At that event learned Dr. Abbot, 64, told how a policeman once tried to arrest lanky Marine Biologist William Beebe for probing in a snow bank for a dead goldfish. He gave a whistling imitation of an Algerian shepherd boy whom he once heard while searching Algeria for a cloudless site for a solar observatory. He concluded with a baritone rendition of a sea ditty about "a ship that went for to sail with a whale...