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Since 1945 MacNeish has poked into more than 300 caves. In 1949 he found in one of them a primitive corncob which he sent to Botanist Paul C. Mangelsdorf of Harvard. Dated by radioactive carbon, it proved to be more than 4,000 years old and cleared up several mysteries about the origin of corn. Urged and partially financed by Harvard to find even older corn, MacNeish returned last year to Tamaulipas...
...cities, on the Jacobins, Joyce, and juvenile delinquents. He has composed Pulitzer Prizewinning poems (The Conquistador by Archibald Mac-Leish) and music (Symphony No. 3 by Walter Piston). In the person of Harlow Shapley, he has given a new view of the geography of the universe, and through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist...
...University botanists concerned with the research include Paul C. Mangelsdorf, professor of Botany; Elso S. Barghoorn, associate professor of Botany; Walton C. Galiuat, a research follow; and Miss Margaret Wolfe of Radcliffe...
...Geoffrey D. Bush '50, of Cambridge; Robert P. Davis '47, of Dorchester, Mass; Burton S. Dreben '50; Abraham Klein of Cambridge; James A. Kritzeck of Saint Cloud, Minn.; Gordon J. F. MacDonald '50, of Cambridge; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Jr. of Cambridge; George C. Soulis of Athens, Greece; and William H. Telfer of Portland, Oregon...
Improved agricultural technique is not the only answer to the problem of hunger in overpopulated countries, stated Paul C. Mangelsdorf, professor of Botany, before the American Association for the Advancement of Science last Thursday. He stressed education, transportation, public health, and birth rate control methods for the food shortages in many nations...