Word: microbiologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of the victims would be noncombatants. Numerous chemical and biological weapons would probably be even more indiscriminate than nuclear bombs in destroying civilian populations. In addition, the ecological damage that CBW would visit upon the earth for generations might well surpass even the effects of nuclear fallout. Says Microbiologist Martin Kaplan, "Sudden disbalances in numbers or the insertion of new infective elements into evolutionally unprepared animal or plant life could produce for an indefinite period an unrecognizable and perhaps unmanageable world from the standpoint of communicable diseases...
Whatever the prospects for lunar life, Cornell Microbiologist Martin Alexander feels that NASA's present Apollo quarantine plans are on shaky scientific grounds and hopelessly inadequate. In discussing the plans with those in the Apollo program, he says, he has heard such statements as, "Of course, it's a sham, but what else could we do?" and, "The public needs to be comforted, and the quarantine serves that function." Shocked by this seeming indifference to what could be a real threat, Alexander calls on NASA to reveal its quarantine plans fully and "to solicit frank opinions and criticism...
Misdiagnosis Likely. A New England research team, reports Microbiologist Edward S. Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health, has studied 13 recent cases, two of them fatal. Six were on Cape Cod, five on Martha's Vineyard and one on Nantucket. The out-of-area case involved a man in Gloucester, Mass., 100 miles from the Cape. That was puzzling because no infected ticks had been found there. The doctors questioned the man closely. No, he had not been to the Cape. In fact, he had not been anywhere except out on the marsh, duck hunting. With...
...similar to that which enveloped the earth during its first 100 million years; the swirling Jovian gases, he added, may already have combined into basic life-building molecules. But the strongest argument was made on behalf of Mars. Despite its freezing temperatures and apparent lack of oxygen, explained NASA Microbiologist Harold P. Klein, life could have been spawned when the red planet's climate was more favorable. Whatever form that life once had, it may have survived over the ages through evolutionary adaptation...
...balance. Behind the marble walls were the world's most carefully designed and elaborately equipped facilities for research into the causes and prevention of blindness. The institute's research complex is staffed not only by ophthalmologists, but also by anatomists, physiologists, biochemists, pathologists and a microbiologist. It boasts three costly electron microscopes to permit research to concentrate on the ultrafine structure of the eye. All rooms have closed-circuit television for the staff to monitor patients' activities and check on their safety. Patients who have no useful vision will be able to entertain themselves with talking books...