Word: murrayism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David O. Morgan, a professor in physiology, biophysics and biochemistry at the University of California who has worked across the hall from Murray for the past 10 years, said Murray is an extraordinary researcher...
...Murray's west coast colleagues expressed both their admiration for him, and their dismay at his departure...
...Murray said the breadth of Harvard's expertise in scientific and technical fields--from biology to computer science to mathematics--was an incentive to come to Cambridge, as well as the opportunity to teach undergraduates. At his previous post, Murray taught only graduate students...
...Murray's work currently focuses on mitosis, the process of cell division and reproduction. Much of his research has examined the concept of a "spindle checkpoint," by which a dividing cell checks that each daughter cell receives exactly one half of each chromosome pair...
When he comes to Harvard, Murray said he hopes to augment these experiments by examining the way cellular structures react to evolutionary pressures, rather than focus solely on mitosis in a static environment...