Word: geneticist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much a philosopher as a geneticist, and he has thought a great deal about his first cousin once removed, Dwight David Eisenhower. Jackson believes the bedrock of Ike's achievements and his growing stature in history came from the white frame house in Abilene and the harmony the town required and imposed for a rewarding life. Many strata of worldly experience were laid down over Ike's character during his 50 years of public service. But the final high silhouette of his life followed the outlines shaped in the streets of Abilene...
...however, the promise of gene therapy appears to outweigh any potential pitfalls. And the acceptance of the new techniques is particularly sweet for longtime advocates. "Twenty years ago, you couldn't utter the phrase gene therapy without being told you were talking nonsense," says Dr. Theodore Friedmann, a molecular geneticist at the University of California, San Diego. "Now it's taken for granted that it's coming." He sees the day when doctors will be able to treat not only the thousands of diseases caused by a single faulty gene but even complex disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimer...
Earlier in this century, Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko severely damaged Soviet agriculture by forcing on his colleagues a pseudoscientific theory of heredity that was ideologically pleasing to the ruling Stalinists. Dissenters were dismissed, disgraced and even sent to the Gulags...