Word: geneticist
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...cancer-research project at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., a Japanese-born geneticist nailed the answer down. Dr. Susumu Ohno showed that the spot was an X (female) chromosome. But he also determined that it was only one of the X chromosomes...
...Bernard D. Davis, head of the department of bacteriology and immunology at the Medical School since 1957, has been named the first Adale Lehman Professor in medicine. Dr. Davis is a microbial geneticist who investigates bacterial cells to study heredity and control mechanisms in all living organisms...
...what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts such influential leaders as British Biologist Julian Huxley and two Nobel prizewinners, British Agriculturist Lord Boyd Orr and U.S. Geneticist Hermann Muller...
...conflict between science and religion," Geneticist George Beadle told a gathering of Christian laymen in Chicago recently. "The answer to the question of creation still remains in the realm of faith. In early Biblical times . . . it was believed as a matter of faith that man was created as man. Since then, science has led us back through a sequence of evolutionary events in such a way that there is no logical place to stop . . . until we come to a primeval universe made of hydrogen. But then we ask, 'Whence came the hydrogen?' and science has no answer...
Ignoring the gibes of colleagues. Geneticist Glen McBride of Australia's University of Queensland perched for two years on the fences of pigpens. By listening to the oinks and grunts of teen-age swine (8 to 16-week age bracket), he hoped to fathom their social order, to learn how to make them more comfortable and faster growing. He failed, mostly because the young swine were made into hams and bacon before he got to know them well...