Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week to attend one or more of the scientific congresses which make the Christmas school holiday a clamorous medley of "I saw that . . .", "I did this. . . ." In New Orleans, together with 33 smaller, affiliated organizations, met the American Association for the Advancement of Science.* Its incoming president, Professor Franz Boas of Columbia University, was bedridden in Manhattan, vexed that he could not take over what the public assumes to be the most eminent office in U. S. Science. In his absence his colleagues discussed the 100 & 1 topics infiltrated with Science. Items...
...President. The high honor the A. A. A. S. offers elder scientists is its presidency. President Thomas Hunt Morgan, 65, zoologist, director of the William G. Kerckhoff Laboratories of the Biological Sciences at California Institute of Technology retired at last week's meeting. His 1932 successor, Professor Franz Boas, 73, Columbia anthropologist, was too ill to travel from Manhattan to New Orleans to assume office. In his absence the A. A. A. S. chose his successor for 1933?Dr. John Jacob Abel, 74, Johns Hopkins' great pharmacologist, the crystallizer of insulin (hormone which controls diabetes) and synthesizer of epinephrine (hormone...
...year ago when Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera was feeling the first serious effects of Depression, Franz von Suppe's light opera Boccaccio was taken out and dusted (TIME, Jan. 12, 1931). Soprano Maria Jeritza put on tights and the box-office felt temporary relief. Opera companies the world over have been lightening their repertoires lately. The Metropolitan's experiment proved so successful that it turned again to von Suppe, presented last week his Donna Juanita...
Depression-born babies will probably grow into men and women of subnormal size (Professor Franz Boas of Columbia University). "Economic conditions influence the size of growing children. . . . Among the poor the period of adolescence is delayed and the final stature shorter than that of the well...
...until 1915 did he leave Harvard for the Institute's animal pathology research in Princeton. Princeton University, like half a dozen other universities, has given him an honorary degree, but he has never had formal connection with that institution except through his daughter Lilian Hilyer, who married Robert Franz Foerster, onetime Princeton professor of economics. Medical literature contains many articles by Dr. Smith. About him there exist in print only three brief accounts, and the Index Catalog of the Library of the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army gives one of them as Dr. Smith's obituary...