Word: geneticist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Known as a "multivator" (for multiple evaluator), the life detector was developed by Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Stanford University's Nobel-winning geneticist, Physicist Elliott Levinthal and Electrical Engineer Lee Hundley. In its current version, which may be further miniaturized, the multivator stands just under 10 in. tall, weighs less than 2 Ibs. But despite its small size, it is more than equal to its momentous mission...
Honors have piled up for Counsilman. Indiana recently awarded him its 1963 Leather Medal for bringing "the most distinction to the university." (Among the previous winners: Sexpert Alfred Kinsey, Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Hermann Muller.) The A.A.U. has just named him head coach of the U.S.'s 1964 Olympic swimming team. And five rival Big Ten swimming coaches, for whom Counsilman's success has meant nothing but hurt, pain, agony, have paid him an ultimate tribute: they refuse to compete against Indiana in a two-team meet...
...quiet Englishwoman who presented no paper and who is, of all things, editor of a semiannual Mouse News Letter. Since the first such conference in London three years ago, the most noteworthy progress in unraveling the mysteries of human heredity has been based on the work of Geneticist Mary F. Lyon, 38. Born in Norwich, daughter of a civil servant, Mary Lyon got a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, specializing in mouse genetics. She now works at the Radiobiological Research Unit at Harwell, 50 miles west of London. Dr. Lyon became intrigued by the fact that some mice-but only females...
Dean Bennett is overseeing one of Chicago's main gambles-that science in the next 20 years will grow fastest in biology. Geneticist Beadle, who won his Nobel in medicine and physiology, is fascinated with how the brain stores and releases knowledge. "Is there a molecular coding system as in genetics? If we just knew what goes on here," he says, tapping his head, "think of the problems we could solve in society, in education...
...Radcliffe Houses pose a more profound threat to the Harvard system by an essentially pluralistic approach. Harvard has discouraged all competition and differentiation among Houses; Radcliffe, like M.I.T., allows each dorm, to set its own parietial rules. Mrs. Bunting has affirmed her belief in competition, a geneticist's faith in separate evolution; Harvard refers such profound matters as wearing Bermuda shorts in dining halls to the Committee of Masters...