Word: krogh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. August Krogh, 74, Danish-born scientist, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology (he discovered the regulation of the motor mechanism of capillaries, took motion pictures of blood cells flowing through the capillaries of living tissue); of cancer; in Copenhagen...
...this, some German scientists have finally risen. In Der Biologe, Geneticist F. Schwanitz pointed out that the anti-evolutionary outbursts have been quite unsupported by scientific references. He seethed at the "shameless attack upon the supporters of evolutionary theory, i.e., the overwhelming majority of biologists." Another scientist, Chr. von Krogh, writes: "Some have tried to identify a scientific doctrine with the National-Socialist philosophy. Nothing could be more wrong. A detailed scientific theory can never be identified or paralleled with a philosophy...
...Shrewdly Krogh casts himself in the role of defender of Aryanism. For thousands of years, says he, "Nordic man" has believed in the unity of body and spirit. By exaggerating the spirituality of race feeling, the anti-evolutionists are importing a non-Aryan, Oriental dualism of body and spirit...