Word: ernsts
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...Darwin is named fourth in the book," said Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus Ernst Mayr, who was ranked 65th. "That already is too low. He has changed thinking more than Einstein. There are probably 100 other scientists that could have been chosen instead. [Simmons] made his judgments, and as a human, his judgment is faulty...
Fleming's further experimentation with penicillin--a few poorly planned attempts to treat patients--proved frustrating, and he turned his attention to other research. But in 1938 Oxford pathologist Howard Florey and his young assistant Ernst Chain took up the work again, using the progeny of Fleming's own molds. In a relatively short time, they demonstrated penicillin's efficacy in treating human infection, a feat that had eluded their predecessor. In 1945, Fleming, Florey and Chain were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine...
...that were the envy of American producers and art-house audiences. In Sweden, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom made sweeping dramas of man in tune with or enslaved by nature. Denmark's Carl Dreyer shot his heroically austere The Passion of Joan of Arc in France. The Germans boasted Ernst Lubitsch's puckish historical sagas and Fritz Lang's grand parables. Lang's Siegfried had a fire-breathing dragon, a contraption 50 ft. long operated by eight men; his gigantic, prophetic Metropolis nearly bankrupted its backers...
...question of national identity is still complicated because Feininger's German sojourn lasted a half century and his work appears distinctly German. His most influential pieces used the color pallette of postwar German Expressionism and his rigid, distorted figures anticipated Franz Marc, Ernst Nolde--and even Italian Futurism in some respects...
...opening reception of the Ernst Mayr Library of Comparative Zoology will be held in the library today, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Mayr said he would give a speech if asked...