Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While hunting outside the Utah town of Redmond, Homer Behunin, 49, an amateur geologist, took a shot at a large male deer. The wounded buck ran off. As Behunin followed in hot pursuit, he stumbled onto a far more important prize: the fossilized remains of a primeval palm tree that may be the oldest flowering plant ever found...
...husband, Darryl Johnson, who is an Army major in Viet Nam. She recalled wistfully: "The most scandalous thing that ever happened to our class was when some guys got caught drinking beer backstage during a stage production." Gene George, president of the class of 1960, is now a geologist with an oil company, a job that leaves him morally unsettled: "I am a conservationist who works for an oil company...
...fact, unlike any earthly specimen-or any of the other lunar material brought back by Apollo 12. It contained 20 times as much radioactive uranium, thorium and potassium as comparable amounts of other moon material and was the oldest lunar specimen yet obtained. Radioactive dating tests made by Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg indicated that the rock was formed 4.6 billion years ago-around the time that the moon and the planets arc believed to have been created. Scientists hope that further examination of the rock will provide new insight into the formation of the solar system...
...thinks that the moon program can be kept on schedule. Indeed, the space agency got some rare encouragement to press ahead with Apollo from an often critical scientific community. Reporting puzzling age differences in lunar dust gathered at the Ocean of Storms and at the Sea of Tranquillity, Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg made a strong plea at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union for continued manned lunar exploration. "The moon," he told the Washington conference, "will surely prove to be the cornerstone of our understanding of planetary evolution...
Driven out of his profession for teaching Darwinism to high school biology students, John Thomas Scopes left both pedagogy and Tennessee in 1925. He became an oil company geologist, prospected for oil in South America, wrote a book and lived to see the "monkey trial" re-created for Broadway and Hollywood. Last week, accepting an invitation from students at Nashville's George Peabody College for Teachers, Scopes, 70, found himself back in a Tennessee classroom for the first time in 45 years-addressing a biology class...