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...last week-of all weeks-with every one expecting Adolf Hitler's death rain to begin momentarily, perhaps from closer bases in The Netherlands, out spoke six-foot Professor John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, one of Britain's most outspoken and respected scientists. He saw Madrid and Barcelona bombed. Predicting indiscriminate bombing if and when the bombers come, in London last week he said...
These are a few of the very many very personal opinions of John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, extraordinary British biologist, prophet and philosopher. His scientific specialty is the application of mathematics to biology, a field in which he has won some renown. A bald, burly, tweedy, shaggy man, he admits he is dogmatic. His reputation for epigrammatic discourse is such that on his travels reporters swarm around him, work him for quotable gems...
...thor apparently decided that he could make the best impression with this book by assuming an air of grave reasonable ness. Despite this effort, many readers will find it less a proof of the scientific validity of Marxism than a collection of opinions on science and Marxism by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane...
Famed British Biochemist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, who says...
...killing point with carbon dioxide gas. Of this odorless gas which appears, among other places, in the exhaled breath of all animals, Sir Joseph declared: "The highest percentage which I know to have been breathed experimentally was 11%, and that for a short time by Mr. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane. Dr. Rodolfo Margaria and I have been in an atmosphere of 10% carbon dioxide for, perhaps, five minutes, but I think that somewhere around 7% or 8% is as much as can be withstood for any extended period, and with that I think Mr. Haldane would agree. Margaria...