Word: geneticists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Died. William Ernest Castle, 94, early U.S. geneticist, longtime professor of zoology at Harvard, who in the 1900s extended from plants to mammals the Mendelian theory of inherited characteristics through inbuilt factors (then unknown as genes); in Berkeley, Calif...
...Bunting's imagination and Institute and the House proof enough. But like most with a talent for organization, Radcliffe's president wants to control the programs she initiates. In the years, the undergraduate has more and more to feel a the bacteria Mrs. Bunting in her role as a geneticist. she urges students to express their views on everything from meal educational policy, Mrs. Bunting unwilling to acknowledge any of "the special needs of the students" that differs radically from her own. She wants the undergraduates to become self-conscious, to and re-shape their education, and insists...