Word: embryologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conklin is primarily an embryologist, whose chief scientific work was done with such material as the eggs of the sea squirt and of a little mollusc named Crepidula. But he got his start in science before extreme specialization was as fashionable as it is today. So he is something of a jack-of-all-biology. Perhaps for the same reason he has the kind of extra-level head which men who are not specialists sometimes have. No dodo, despite his amiable nature, he has a merry tongue which articulates scientific problems with what the contemporaries of his younger days called...
...sang Poet Archibald MacLeish in his Frescoes For Mr. Rockefeller's City. The sound kernel of truth in Poet MacLeish's observation has been clinically noted by Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas. At the New York Academy of Medicine last week Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard, embryologist, morphologist and anatomist at Cornell Medical School, offered a possible explanation...
...Nobel Prize for Medicine last week went to a German embryologist, sturdy Professor Hans Spemann, 66, of the University of Freiburg. The German Press published big headlines about this first unstinted salute to a Nazi scientist...
Frank Rattray Lillie, embryologist (University of Chicago), director of Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole. Mass.) Sc.D...
...Bradley Merrill Patten, embryologist of Western Reserve University, showed a film, taken with a special microscopic lens, of the heart of an unhatched chicken. Twenty-nine hours after incubation, five days before the formation of any nerve tissue, the heart began to beat. The beat began in the portion of the heart which later became the right ventricle, not in the "pacemaker" portion, where begin the normal beats of a fully developed heart. The pictures showed that before the formation of any chambers the heart is a straight tube with no indentations. Later it twists upon itself, becomes U-shaped...