Word: physiologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer life may be higher gravity-at least for rats. That is the "very tentative suggestion" of experiments performed by NASA Physiologist Jiro Oyama, who has been raising mice and rats under artificial gravities created by centrifuges at Ames Research Center in California. Whirling on an 8½-ft. centrifuge, two female rats survived for 47 months, a year longer than their normal three-year life span...
...alcohol to save premature babies was the discovery of Anna-Riitta Fuchs, a physiologist at Rockefeller University, who found that alcohol given intravenously to animals shuts off the production of oxytocin, the hormone that activates labor contractions. Mrs. Fuchs is the wife of Dr. Fritz Fuchs, obstetrician in chief at New York Hospital; during her fourth pregnancy, she began to have premature contractions, and thus became the first human to receive the treatment suggested by her animal research...
...until the present century did it become clear that safe blood transfusions depended on matching at least the A, B and O groups of red cells. The Rh factor came still later. In the early 1900s, U.S. Physiologist Charles Claude Guthrie and French Biologist-Surgeon Alexis Carrel appeared for a while to have broken down the barriers against transplants. They devised most of the basic surgical techniques, notably how to stitch slippery little blood vessels together so that the joints would neither leak nor close down with clots...
...conjecture that, if accepted, explains why Negro cultures in Africa lag behind the West's and why the Negro is not yet the white man's intellectual peer. According to Coon, he simply has not had enough time. Approaching the subject from closer range, University of Chicago Physiologist Dwight Ingle writes: "America is trying to build the Great Society by applying only palliative methods for the correction of cultural handicaps and ignoring possible biological bases of incompetence, indolence and irresponsibilty...
...recovery plane. Dartmouth Botanist Charles J. Lyon took a look at Bio-satellite's wheat seedlings and found that they had germinated, sending out roots and sprouts that were normal in form but sprawling in unusual directions be cause of the lack of gravity. North American Aviation Plant Physiologist Samuel Johnson opened the pepper plant packages and found their leaves folded down and turned under. "This is astounding," he said. "It shows that gravity really controls the orientation of a plant to a much greater extent than I had anticipated." And to Biologist Rudolph Mattoni, in charge...