Word: mendeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Villanova College last week went the Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, Belgian-born professor of organic chemistry at Notre Dame, to receive the Mendel Medal as Catholic scientist-of-the-year for his researches on acetylene which led to the development of synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Before the ceremony a newshawk questioned the famed priest on another outgrowth of his researches, lewisite, only war gas deadlier than mustard gas. Said Father Nieuwland...
Report of what was probably the first effort to save the life of a cancerous human being by means of a new procedure appeared last week in the American Journal of Cancer. The patient, a woman dying from recurrent cancer of the breast, came to the attention of Dr. Mendel Jacobi of Brooklyn. Dr. Jacobi injected a small quantity of a solution under the skin of the woman's diseased armpit. That solution was a filtrate of Bacillus typhostis, the germ which causes typhoid fever. Twenty-four hours later Dr. Jacobi administered a second injection of the filtrate intravenously...
...fall tournament, Cleveland Amory, runner-up in the same, Jack D. Andrews, Francis H. Appleton 3d., James M. Arensberg. Oliver P. Bolton, Arthur H. Brooks, Jr., Morton L. Davis, Jr., William P. Everts, Jr., Frederic W. Fuller, Jr., Donald H. Gordon, Walter S. Griscom, Jr., Andre J. Mendel. Charles N. Miles, and Murray L. Silberstein...
...heredity got under way with a bang. Thomas Hunt Morgan made the tough, quick-breeding fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, the most famed insect in the scientific world, correlated hundreds of Mendelian characters with invisible transmitting agents called genes, strung out along the germ-cell chromosomes. It became apparent that Mendel's peas were priceless landmarks in the history of biological science...
Last year Dr. Samuel Weiller Fernberger, University of Pennsylvania psychology professor, visited the monks of Mendel's monastery. War had shifted the land from Austria to Czechoslovakia, and the town's name had been changed from Brünn to Brno. Of the thousands of peas with which he had worked. Mendel had preserved and mounted only six, and half of these the monastery had lost or given away. Tactfully the professor told the pious men how, at his university, fruitful researches based on Mendel's laws were going vigorously forward. The monks decided...