Word: geneticist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousands of American soldiers became ill with scarlet fever or related strep infections. Mrs. Lancefield, who got her master's at the time and began working for her doctorate in microbiology at Columbia University, had no trouble finding a problem on which to concentrate. Encouraged by her husband, Geneticist Donald E. Lancefield, she became one of the first bacteriologists to recognize that the streptococci are an appallingly complex group of microbes. She spent a decade in the laboratory, painstakingly classifying different strains of streptococci according to the poisons they produce. By 1928 she was ready to report that...
...geneticists the fascinating fact about the Old Order Amish, one of the sects of the Pennsylvania Dutch country's "Plain People," is that they all are descended from about 200 immigrants of 200 years ago. A few Amish leave the ancestral acres and simple (no motors, no worldly entertainments) way of life, but virtually no new blood has been introduced to create genetic confusion. For such a group, to survive is to inbreed, and the Amish have more than survived; they now number 44,000. In 1963, to take advantage of this unique opportunity into the land...
Starting with a brother-sister pair of mice in the "mouse house" at Los Alamos, Geneticist Spalding raised generation after generation of mice, the equivalent of 900 years of mankind. When the males of one line of Spalding's mice were about 26 days old, they were dosed with one-third the amount of X rays that would have been necessary to kill them-as much as they could take and still reproduce. Females were not irradiated since a similar dose would have left them sterile...
...Herman J. Muller, Nobel prizewinning geneticist-Sc.D. A scientific humanist who merges in his own mind many minds...
...them, for all have sprung, fatherless, from some worldwide parthenogenetic conspiracy-a detail borrowed from the eerie Village of the Damned (1960). The sequel pales in comparison, as do most sequels. But it is filmed with taste and acted in crisp style, particularly by Alan Badel as a witty geneticist who strikes just that note of detachment that makes the whole thing seem lightly plausible. The movie's spell holds nearly to the end, when all the far-out fun of pseudoscience suddenly shapes up as a message. Too bad that those sinister boys and girls have nothing more...