Word: immunologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have treated a patient it has been done solely from a scientific motive." The workroom obscurity which Dr. d'Herelle maintains, Professor George Hathorn Smith of Yale would like. Before Dr. d'Herelle's first brochures relating to bacteriophagy appeared in 1917, Professor Smith, bacteriologist and immunologist, felt that "our ideas concerning immunity were entirely inadequate." There seemed "injustice in so organizing this universe that of all living creatures the one with the greatest parasitic tendencies should itself be free of parasites." Dr. d'Herelle's work suggested an explanation. Professor Smith became his translator...
...Arrowsmith's contemporaries were shoddy, sloppy (there was a beefy Bible-banger, a medical Babbitt, an icy, calculating dollar-chaser). And even stronger than Arrowsmith's reactions against these was his love for the lonely, sardonic genius of the school, Max Gottlieb, Mephistophelian German Jew, brilliant immunologist, pure scientist...