Word: endocrinologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional explanation is that they are caused by hormonal changes. In 1970 Senator Hubert H. Humphrey's personal physician, Dr. Edgar Herman, created a flap by announcing that "raging hormonal influences" made women unfit for high-pressure jobs. The most impressive work on the effects of menstruation-by Endocrinologist Dr. Katharina Dalton of London's University College Hospital-seems to lend plausibility to the Herman thesis. In studies over a 20-year period, Dr. Dalton found that the grades of female pupils showed a 15% drop when exams fell during days of "premenstrual tension." She also reported that...
Though no one as yet understands all the workings of the pituitary, Dr. Choh Hao Li, a Chinese-born biochemist and endocrinologist at the University of California, has come closer than anyone to unlocking its secrets. Li and his colleagues have isolated and purified eight of the pituitary's ten known hormones. Now Li has carried his research a major step forward with the laboratory synthesis of one of the most important of these chemical messengers, somatotropin, or human growth hormone...