Word: mendel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back to Mendel. One of the men who blazed the new fur trail is the short, chunky president of the two-year-old Silverblu Platinum Mink Breeders Association, Larry Moore. Still in his 30s, Larry Moore has been breeding mink for 18 years. He used it to pay his way through an engineering course at Iowa State College at Ames. Soon he became more inter sted in mink than in engineering, switched to an animal husbandry course. Then he gave up college altogether: tak ing care of his mink left him little time for study. Having located an ideal...
ALFRED O. MENDEL New York City...
...last of the elements to be identified was isolated last week. Ever since bearded Russian Professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeléeff classified the probable chemical elements in 1869 and arranged them in the periodic table, scientists have looked for a fifth member of the halogen family: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine. Now the hypothetical eka-iodine (i.e., next to iodine) has finally been isolated in Bern, Switzerland. Thus Mendeléeff's table has now been realized, substantially as he predicted, with 92 elements (unless there are others heavier than uranium, which chemists think unlikely...
...scientific laws of inheritance, which had their genesis in the Moravian sweet pea garden of pious Monk Gregor Mendel, are more & more often appealed to when sordid cases reach U. S. courts. Last week, in the Scientific Monthly, Dr. Alexander S. Wiener described the newest and safest tools of the courtroom geneticist...
...Wave Mechanics of Heisenberg. Out with Kekule's theory of molecular structure, Helmholtz's electrodynamics, the chemistry of aniline dyes, etc. Out with microscopes, telescopes, cameras, and other instruments requiring lenses, perfected in Germany, fundamentally of course for military usage. Out with Ehrlich's "Magic Bullet," Mendel's laws of heredity. Finally, but not until our program has been completed, out with the sterilization of innocent peoples...