Word: geneticist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While experimenting in 1948, Geneticist Hannes Laven of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz discovered that common mosquitoes from Paris that were mated with members of the same species from Hamburg would not produce offspring. The reason for this sterility, he determined, was a difference in the cytoplasm (the protoplasm surrounding the cell nucleus) between the Paris and Hamburg strains of mosquitoes. Because of this difference, the egg cells of the females of one strain could not accept the sperm cells from males of the other strain, causing the female to lay infertile eggs. This Franco-German incompatibility...
Died. Hermann Joseph Muller, 76, U.S. geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in 1946 for his 1927 experiments in which he bombarded fruit flies with X rays to produce weird mutations and demonstrated long before the atomic age the effects of radiation on genes, an outspoken scientist, most recently advocating the establishment of artificial insemination banks to store the frozen sperm of gifted men to improve the human race now and in the future; of heart disease; in Indianapolis...
Doing Nicely. Silberbauer was reprimanded, and is now back on the Vienna force. Explains Wiesenthal: "Compared to other names in my files, Silberbauer is a nobody, a zero." Other names in Wiesenthal's at-large list go far beyond zero. They include Dr. Josef Mengele, Hitler's geneticist, who tried to turn the world blue-eyed for Aryanism by means of painful ocular injections; he is now reported by Wiesenthal to be hiding in Paraguay. Biggest fish still at large, though, is Deputy Führer Martin Bormann, now 66, who Wiesenthal claims is not only alive...
...Geneticist Maimon J. Cohen and his colleagues were making a highly preliminary report. They had found this phenomenon in the blood of only three people. From two healthy subjects they drew blood, then grew the white cells in the test tube. When LSD, in varying concentrations, was added for durations of four to 48 hours, the number of broken or otherwise damaged chromosomes was increased as much as tenfold over the small number usually found in healthy cells...
...trust to luck, worry throughout the pregnancy, and blame themselves if a defective child was born. The other was to have no child. Now, by using charts of probabilities worked out by Dr. J. A. Fraser Roberts of London's famed Guy's Hospital, a geneticist can give parents an accurate appraisal of what their chances are of producing a second defective...