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...Another American, Geneticist Hermann J. Muller, had already won the Medicine Prize (TIME...
Mild-mannered Theophilus Shickel Painter, a geneticist, likes to peer through microscopes, putter in his water-lily garden and hunt in season. As shy as a deer, he makes a fetish of avoiding publicity. But last week Professor Painter, who had been acting president of the University of Texas since 1944, saw and heard his name everywhere he turned...
This week at the University of Minnesota, two top-level professors-Dr. Robert G. Green, expert in bacteriology and immunology, and Dr. John J. Bittner, geneticist and cancer biologist-nailed up an important signpost in medicine's fight against cancer. They reported that they had discovered: 1) a filterable virus which definitely causes breast cancer in mice; 2) an anti-cancer serum which kills the mouse cancer cells, in test tubes...
Died. Dr. Clarence Erwin McClung, 75, University of Pennsylvania zoologist and geneticist who discovered the relationship between chromosomes and sex determination by examining grasshoppers (he collected 100,000, once had a 20-man WPA team helping him cut them up); of a heart attack; in Swarthmore...
Died. Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, 79, shy, Nobel Prizewinning (1933) geneticist whose studies of the quick-breeding fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) culminated in an epochal hypothesis: the existence of genes - submicroscopic determinants of heredity; in Pasadena...