Word: labs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...produce-laden freight train). Doc was an old-fashioned sort of biologist who combed tide pools for the invertebrates he loved - mollusks, anemones, starfish - and studied their gross features and quirky behavior (and supported himself by supplying biological specimens and slides to schools and research institutions from his rickety lab along Cannery Row). He did not even think about the molecules that made them tick. But he did have a lively, open mind - a mind without horizons, as Steinbeck liked to say. He would surely have been an eager participant in what its organizers engagingly call ?a conversation, a celebration...
...Indeed, during the 1930s, Ricketts was a magnet for the bright young intellectuals flocking to the Big Sur country. Ruggedly handsome and loquacious, with an eye for the ladies, he was a kind of guru even before that word became fashionable. His lab was a late-night haunt for a wide assortment of artists, writers and scholars, among them Henry Miller, Joseph Campbell and, of course, Steinbeck, who admittedly absorbed Doc?s ideas like a sponge and turned him into the model for half a dozen characters in his books. (Ricketts "was part of my brain," the Nobel-prizewinning writer...
...into a prominent Jewish family in London, she graduated from Cambridge in 1941, then went on to do groundbreaking work on the molecular structure of coal, first in England and later in France, a country she vastly preferred to her homeland. She earned a reputation for meticulous lab work and a brusque manner. Words like difficult, bossy and impatient crop up frequently in the recollections of those who knew her. Prickly is a particular favorite...
Ironically, Franklin thought of her stint at King's as the low point of her career. By the time the news about DNA broke, she had moved on to a lab at the University of London, where she studied the structure of viruses. There she finally met the Crick to her Watson, the crystallographer Aaron Klug, with whom she did the best work of her career. In 1955 Don Caspar, a young researcher from the California Institute of Technology, visited the lab, and they became close. At 35, Franklin had still never had a fulfilling romantic relationship with...
...lab was in financial trouble, and they couldn't get anyone else to run it. I wanted to keep it alive, because this is such an important meeting place for biologists. I've been coming here for workshops and conferences since I was 20. One thing we did was to focus on the problem of understanding cancer; not only is it important, but cancer money is easier to get than other money. More recently, we've refocused on stopping cancer, since we understand so much about...