Word: histologist
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Morocco). Amid all these distractions he has kept up his hobby, "higher mathematics," and found time to spend hours in the laboratory of his son Jean, a quiet investigator in the field of comparative histology. Last week, by a trick of Fate, it was the good-looking young histologist, not the grizzled care-worn statesman, whose name was blazoned unexpectedly across column heads in the French press...
...Histologist Jean Painleve had been experimenting with the lower forms of plant and animal life. As they grew and unfolded in his test tubes, their unscientific intrinsic beauty seemed to him, to merit reproduction by the cinema. He called up a friend, the French cinema director, Rene Sti. M. Sti at once despatched a cameraman. The cameraman cranked, Jean Painleve fussed in and out of the pictures with his test tubes, then the extraordinary occurred...
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