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...been very much a dabbler, and I'm not ashamed of it. Sometimes I wonder idly what I might be remembered for a hundred years from now-but I don't really very much care what people think about me, especially a hundred years hence." Perhaps John Burdon Sanderson Haldane did not really care, but last week, when it came time for BBC-TV to present a prefilmed obituary of the versatile British scientist in which he appeared, it was clear that he would be remembered for a multitude of contributions to man's knowledge...
Died. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 72, irascible expatriate British scientist who demonstrated that he was his own best guinea pig; of cancer; in Bhubaneswar, India (see SCIENCE...
...meet against top college competitors and ski instructors, Dwight Black finished 36th in the two day Alpine combined and freshman Ernest Dane finished 35th. The meet for individual laurels was won by Dartmouth's Tommy Corcoran, who placed ninth in the downhill, but won the slalom. Middlebury's Dough Burdon, winner of the downhill, fell on the slalom, as did all Harvard skiers, but still managed to come in third...
...Wistar Institute), picks its pickled prizes with discrimination. Last week it blundered. The University of Pennsylvania Today announced the addition of famed British Biochemist J. B. S. Haldane's brain, meant that of his late father, Biologist John Scott Haldane. When last heard from, hulking, shaggy, tweedy John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was very much alive, hard at work in his University of London chair, editing the London Daily Worker...
...Adventures of a Biologist. Famed problem child of British scientists, prolific science writer, expert on poison gas, big, bristly-tempered, 47-year-old Biologist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane believes that life without adventure is "like beef without mustard." But his idea of adventure is not safaris; it is exploring the ultramicroscopic world, the stratosphere, the nature rather than the surface of the earth. Besides essays on the biologist in relation to everything from town-planning to death, Biologist Haldane speculates on the effect of weather on history, on the possibility of a new ice age, on the chances...