Word: conklin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most distinguished of the 16*-one whose solid scientific achievements are no greater than those of some others but who stands out because he is a notable leader of science, teacher of science, preacher of science, historian of science, analyst of science and critic of science-Edwin Grant Conklin of Princeton, will tell the others that the centenary they are celebrating is a scientific fraud...
There is nothing that Biologist Conklin wants less than to spoil the celebration. But as a scholar and scientist he is an uncompromising iconoclast. So he thinks it only fair to make the point that the cell theory was set afoot not in 1839 but during the previous 170 years, not by Herren Schleiden and Schwann but by a number of men almost nobody knows...
...Robert Hooke's ghost had been in Richmond last week it would have heard something very gratifying. Edwin Grant Conklin, Princeton's famed biologist, declared that it was a mistake to attribute the origin of the biological cell theory, whose centenary is being observed in scientific circles, to two Germans, Schleiden and Swann. "Their theory," said Dr. Conklin, "was a special and in important respects an erroneous one. There is no present biological interest in their theory. . . . Cells were first seen, named, described and figured by Robert Hooke ... 170 years before the work of Schleiden and Swann. Hooke...
Born. To Peggy Conklin, 29, sometime cinemactress (The President Vanishes), stage star (The Petrified Forest; Yes, My Darling Daughter), and her Manhattan broker husband, James Daniel Thompson: their first child, a daughter; in Greenwich, Conn...
Said Edwin Grant Conklin, famed Princeton biologist and retiring A. A. A. S. president: "The ethics of science regards the search for truth as one of the highest duties of man; it regards noble human character as the finest product of evolution: it considers the service of all mankind as the universal good; it teaches that both human nature and human nurture may be improved, that reason may overcome unreason, co-operation supplement competition, and the progress of the human race through future ages be promoted by human intelligence and purpose...