Word: ivanoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed gland-grafter. Last fortnight, Dr. Voronoff told Frenchmen about his extra-heavy three-glanded Algerian rams (TIME, Aug. 9). To his Swedish hosts he revealed that he had grafted within Nora, a mature female chimpanzee, the sex organs of a human female. Then, with assistance from Dr. Elie Ivanoff of Moscow, he had artificially impregnated Nora with human sperms. She was to bear her baby in January and it would be, biologically, a human child. To date, she was progressing normally...
Those of Dr. Voronoff's listeners who were not skeptical were reported as being "highly shocked," but no more shocked than other squeamish persons had been at Dr. Elie Ivanoff's announcement, earlier in the year (TIME, June 28), that he is to try breeding (artificially) orang-outangs with yellow, gorillas with black, and chimpanzees with white, humans, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to try to demonstrate the close relation of human and ape stocks...
...public prints last week. Experiments were to be conducted, he said, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to "support" Evolution by breeding apes with humans. Soviet Russia had contributed $10,000. A total of $100,000 was needed over a period of years. Eminent Professor Elie Ivanoff of Moscow had already departed for Africa to make preparations...
...means fall; the distance of apes and men from a parent stock would merely be demonstrated to be as great or greater than it is now estimated. Most scientists regarded the Kindia experiments with utter skepticism, though also, as becomes scientists, with open minds. From Moscow last week Dr. Ivanoff's chief assistant bitterly denied any connection with Atheist Smith's curious organization, did not deny that the experiments were to be made...
Since Chang is anti-Bolshevik and pro-Japanese, Moscow editors fulminated, although the Soviet Government recently succeeded in making Chang kotow toward it, to the extent of releasing from arrest (TIME, Feb. 1) M. Ivanoff, the Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway...