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...belongs in the tradition of the scientific seers, which includes Galileo watching the swing of a lamp in the Cathedral of Pisa and deducing from it the law of the pendulum, and Isaac Newton watching the fall of an apple and deducing from it the law of gravity. For thousands of years men looked at the cryptogamic mold called Penicillium notatum, but Dr. Fleming was the first to see its meaning. His discernment, restoring to science the creative vision which it has sometimes been held to lack, restored health to millions of men living and unborn...
...Isaac first filed suit against the University in 1980, after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that Harvard had discriminated against him when it denied him tenure. After the first judge to hear the case disqualified himself because of possible bias, the dispute went to Skinner...
...Isaac's supporters claim Harvard's failure to grant him tenure stemmed from the University's decision to restrict the scope of the Afro-Am department to exclude Isaac's fields of African study...
...Harvard never questioned my competence. Their position has always been that I was not relevant to the department," Isaac said yesterday...
Shaw said the Ephraim Isaac Defense Fund, an offshoot of his group, last year raised more than $4000 to help defray Isaac's legal expenses...