Word: geneticists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already terrorized London, Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, said that intercontinental missiles would not be possible for a "very long period of time." The American public, he impatiently contended, should not even think about them. Only last December, Dr. Bentley Glass, a geneticist and the retiring president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, added his name to the list of doubters. The basic laws of science are all now known, he said. "For all time to come these [laws] have been discovered, here and now, in our own lifetime...
After all of mankind's headlong progress of the past century, science may well have reached its limit for discovery. This startling thought was offered last week by Geneticist Bentley Glass in his valedictory as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "The laws of life," he said, "are based on similarities, finite in number and comprehensible to us in the main now. For all time to come, these have been discovered, here and now, in our own lifetime...
...will find the chapters on viruses and cancer especially informative. It's not necessary to be a hard-core biochemist to read Watson, and a look at these chapters will make technical papers and even newspaper stories about cancer experiments a lot more comprehensible. In the chapter entitled "A Geneticist's View of Cancer," Watson first discusses the specific changes cancerous cells undergo on infection, and then details the molecular mechanisms proposed for the transformation of cells by tumor viruses. If left at that, this chapter would be a valuable compilation of the present data on cancer induction, but Watson...
Solzhenitsyn's protest was prompted by the case of Dr. Zhores Medvedev, a prominent Soviet geneticist who last month was locked up in a mental institution. Nine months ago Medvedev lost his job as head of a radiological institute in Obninsk. Reason: the publication in the West of a book, in which he charged that Stalin's pet scientist, Trofim Lysenko, had thwarted the advancement of Soviet biological research. Medvedev attacked Lysenko for distorting facts for political reasons, and for imposing "demagoguery and intimidation" on Soviet science, leading to "scientific bankruptcy." In line with Communist ideology, Lysenko taught...