Word: biologists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sacred convocation and are hardly tossed around loosely. When word of the White House feeler got around, some of the faculty became rather petulant. John Womack Jr., chairman of the history department, said, "I'd feel ashamed if they offered him a degree." George Wald, our Nobel laureate biologist who also seems to have become an expert in political science, mumbled something to the New York Times about a "disgraceful necessity" and intimated that he might stay away. It reminds me of the quandary when President Jackson was given an honorary degree. John Quincy Adams, of the class...
Comedian John Belushi. Gangster John Dillinger. Nobel Biologist Francis Crick. All are classic Type T personalities, and so, fittingly enough, is television...
...while studying the membrane of Paramecium that Biologist John Preer Jr. and his colleagues at Indiana University in Bloomington stumbled onto the aberrant code. In the midst of the long sequences of Paramecium codons, they kept finding words that in most creatures read "stop." Yet in Paramecium, the word added another amino acid. Says Preer: "We thought it must be an error in our technique." However, news soon filtered over from the Centre de Genetique Moleculaire laboratory near Paris that scientists there were encountering the same anomaly. As the two groups report in a recent issue of the British journal...
...Templeton Foundation* has given its Prize for Progress in Religion. All of the recipients have distinguished themselves primarily in spiritual endeavors. But the 1985 winner of the $185,000 award, announced last week, is an exception: Sir Alister Hardy, 89, won international fame as a British marine biologist. His ideas, however, are as discomfiting for many of his fellow scientists as they are for conventional churchmen. Throughout his career he has had an avocational curiosity about humanity's spiritual experiences and the possibility of using scientific methods to classify and study them...
...nice to interview a (Salvadoran) freedom fighter in the shade of a palm tree." A second boy wrote, "I will be a pilot . . . and then the director of a trust just like Dad. I'll fly abroad and bring back presents." Another girl revealed that after she married a biologist, "we'd buy a piano and sing all day long. We'd buy a Scottish sheepdog and two cockatoos." One of her schoolmates shared the happy thought that "I wouldn't work but I'd get paid just the same . . . I'd also like to have lots of different things...