Word: geneticists
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...field of medicine no young Banting skyrocketed from obscurity with a cancer cure. Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan of Caltech received a Nobel ' Prize for his studies in the heredity of fruit flies, but Dr. Morgan's reward was the result of research carried on over a period of many years...
Educator John Dewey stared, smiled and applauded. Neurologist Stewart Paton stared, smiled and applauded. Geneticist Charles Benedict Davenport stared, smiled and applauded. Likewise did four dozen other specially invited guests at the performances of a 19-month old boy known as Johnny. They watched the youngster critically as he climbed up a steep plank to get a banana, as he dropped down from a 5-ft. perch (see cut, p. 18), as he got around on roller skates, as he picked out familiar objects from a pile of hells, pencils, spoons and other miscellany-all the while gibbling &; gabbling with...
...seen a gene, although the late Geneticist John Belling of the University of California recorded their reflections with photomicrographic equipment. As to the substance of the genes. Dr. Morgan surmises that they are single, or perhaps small clusters of, complex chemical molecules. His view of inheritance is purely mechanistic, his view of life purely materialistic. At its simplest, life to him is nothing more than a sunbeam jiggling on an atom of carbon...
...reached Pasadena, hearts burned among the staff of California Institute of Technology. Caltech was built to be the greatest lamp of Science in the U. S. Lumber, oil and electricity provided the fuel. Biggest wicks are Robert Andrews Millikan (Nobel Laureate, physicist), Arthur Amos Noyes (chemist). Thomas Hunt Morgan (geneticist). Astronomer George Ellery Hale gleams on Mount Wilson nearby. The late Albert Abraham Michelson (Nobel Laureate, physicist) used to measure light's speed a few miles to the south. Other brilliant scientists frequent Caltech for work & consultation, among them Albert Einstein. Last week Caltech made sure, and announced that...