Word: physiologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Half a world away, Peruvian Indians have lived for centuries on low oxygen concentrations in the high Andes. To learn more about what this has done to their hearts and lungs, and what happens when they go down to the low level at Lima, PHS is backing research by Physiologist Alberto Hurtado. U.S. spacemen are looking anxiously over his shoulder for the answers...
...which colorless fluids flow. The Romans did coin a name, but for the fluid only. They called it lympha, after a fancied resemblance to clear spring water. But nothing about the lymphatic system was clear then, or for another 2,000 years. Only now, says Tulane University's Physiologist Hymen S. Mayerson in a report to the American College of Surgeons, are the workings of the lymphatic system beginning to be understood. The body's second circulation system, he says, plays an essential role in keeping man alive and healthy by filtering gallons of fluid every day, transporting...
Last week at its annual meeting, the academy elected a new president. Retired after an unprecedented three terms was Physiologist Detlev W. Bronk, 64, who has run the academy since 1950. Chosen to take his place was 50-year-old Dr. Frederick Seitz, a dry-humored physicist from the University of Illinois, who has played a bright role in a new science: solid-state physics...
Died. Homer William Smith, 67, lanky, leading U.S. physiologist who was first to trace the evolution of the kidney, for 34 years taught New York University medical students to reflect on the arts as well as the sciences, and as a passionate agnostic sought to prove in his books Kamongo and Man and His Gods that organized religion is a figment of man's fearful myths; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Fat American," a look at the causes and cures of overweight. Among experts interviewed: Dr. Paul Dudley White and Ancel Keys, physiologist and co-inventor of wartime K ration...