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...former Nat Sci 5 student applauded Hopkins as being "the only guy in the University who could make the development of a chicken egg really mean something...
Hopkins, a specialist in molecular biology, became an assistant professor in 1962. Besides teaching Nat Sci 5 he has given lectures in Nat Sci 6, and several upper-level Biology courses...
...discovery of the Vitamin A molecule in the retina goes a long way toward explaining the physiology of eyesight. Light, it seems, makes this crooked molecule straighten out and signal the optic nerve. The very originality of such work also makes Wald a frontiers-of-research lecturer, and his "Nat Sci 5," in the Harvard Crimson's judgment, is "one of Harvard's truly great courses...
Last year Wald applied his procedure to researching color-blindness, using volunteers drawn primarily from his Nat Sci 5 course. His experiments revealed, he said. "The answer to color blindness is absurdly simple,"--each of the color-blind volunteers possessed only two of the three essential pigments, he said...
Overwhelming interest in Nat Sci 112, which brought some 150 students to the first meeting of a course designed for 30, encouraged the Division to propose outlines for several further general education offerings. Edward T. Wilcox, chairman of the General Education Committee, has been urging a wider course selection in this area...