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When Kansas State College hired Freddie Hisaw as an assistant professor of zoology and mammalogist in 1919, he "didn't even know what a mammalogist was. It turned out to be a fancy name for rodent exterminator," says Frederick Lee Hisaw, now 64, "and one of the rodents I was to exterminate was the pocket gopher. But I soon became more interested in live pocket gophers than in dead ones...
...Senior Fellows. These form an unusual group in their own right: Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Kenneth B. Murdock, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Alfred North Whitchead have been past members. The present group of Senior Fellows is led by Crane Brinton and includes Frederick L. Hisaw, Harry T. Levin, Arthur Darby Nock, Renato Poggioli and Edward M. Purcell...
World famous research professors abound in the department. A lot of them are good lecturers, too, William H. Weston is rated tops. Kenneth V. Thimann, Frederick L. Hisaw, Alfred S. Romer, and George Wald all win praise for interesting well-planned courses...
Using guines pigs, for example, Professor Frederick L. Hisaw has discovered relaxin, a chemical now known to exist in the human body. His search started several years ago when scientists discovered, much to their chagrin, that pocket gophers were physically incapable of having children. The female pelvis was much too small...
...Hisaw explained the seeming inconsistency by finding that relaxin causes widening of the pelvis when a female is pregnant. He is now studying the chemistry and workings of this hormone, and is using other hormones in monkeys to reproduce artificially the conditions of pregnancy...