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...Martian atmosphere also seems to lack oxygen. This fact alone, says the careful physiologist, rules out all higher forms of life-as earthlings understand life. Warm-blooded "little men from Mars," therefore, will probably never try to invade New Jersey. But Martian plant life (e.g., mosses and lichens that can manufacture their own oxygen) is entirely possible. From this distance, there is not" much more to be learned about the far-off planet that looks pale red to the naked eye. If rocket riders ever get to Mars, says Dr. Strughold, the first explorer to return will be able...
...quarreled with Physiologist Andrew C. Ivy. vice president of the university, over the cancer drug Krebiozen (TIME, April 9, 1951 et seq.). Though Stoddard had scientific backing for his denunciation of the drug, many trustees felt that it was not up to him to belabor popular Dr. Ivy in public...
...Bronk, a physiologist like his predecessor, has been on one of the institute's boards while heading Johns Hopkins. Soon he will reverse the roles, remaining a trustee of the university. His forte, demonstrated both at Hopkins and as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: a great ability to harmonize the scattered chords of specialized research, and to coax specialized researchers to play together like an orchestra...
JEAN MALTERRE (France), animal physiologist...
...From the Mayo Clinic came a comprehensive report of elaborate investigations there by a distinguished team, one of whose stars is British-born Physiologist Reginald G. Bickford. The Mayo workers have placed electrodes deep in the brains of 13 patients at Rochester (Minn.) State Hospital to study schizophrenia, epilepsy and related seizures and brain tumors, always as a means of deciding exactly what surgery will be best. They have found that the deep brain waves make it possible to locate a tumor more precisely than ever before, and also to spot the damaged region which is causing epilepsy. These...