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...Lansing, a 32-year-old geneticist and old-age expert at Washington University, has been studying the rotifer, a minute animal that lives in water. Rotifers are ideally fitted for experiments on senescence : they are multicellular,* have simple brains, eye spots, and live three weeks or less. The females produce fertile eggs without male help. (The males are rare, weak, often impotent, live only 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobody Gets Any Younger | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...working delegate on the Atomic Energy Commission, gentle, saturnine Frederick H. Osborn, wasted no time on doubtful optimism. The 58-year-old geneticist and wartime major general (morale branch), who makes Britons at Lake Success think of Lord Halifax, was already on the record with an uncompromising verdict against the kind of control Gromyko proposed: "A fraud on the people of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Nothing New | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Died. Herbert Spencer Jennings, 79, famed zoologist and geneticist who spent years (at Johns Hopkins, and the University of California at Los Angeles) studying the lives & loves of the hairy, green, one-celled Paramecium bursaria, in search of clues to the mysteries of more complex animals; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Socialist Britain had been fully warned that Wallace would be speaking for himself alone. Wrote Denis W. Brogan, an acute observer of U.S. affairs: "Britain will be welcoming not the leader of a great mass movement, much less the leader of a great national party, but a distinguished plant geneticist, a former vice president, and the editor of ... a weekly review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Enormous Thing | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

This euthanasia, like the Western variety practiced by the Nazis, was not entirely consistent. Arrested as a ringleader of the mercy killers was a blind man. Apparently, his djinn knew a ward leader or a geneticist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUDAN: Euthanasia in the Otoros | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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