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Word: pittendrigh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton graduate students who serve terms in jail for resisting the draft will be readmitted with no loss of credit and a maximum of financial aid, Colin Pittendrigh, dean of Princeton's graduate school, said yesterday...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Princeton Dean to Re-Admit Resisters After Prison Term | 2/26/1968 | See Source »

...Pittendrigh added, however, that he did not expect many students to follow this course, since "no graduate students is likely to be so stupid that he won't think his decision out carefully. Going to jail or running off to Canada is more than simply a way to avoid something distasteful...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Princeton Dean to Re-Admit Resisters After Prison Term | 2/26/1968 | See Source »

More from the Sun. Martian life, said the panel headed by Princeton Biologist Colin S. Pittendrigh and Stanford's Nobel-prizewinning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg, must be hardy enough to survive long periods of extreme dryness and cold. Martian organisms may concentrate water vapor the way earthly plants collect small traces of carbon dioxide; they may even make their own water by chemical action. There is a possibility that they need no water at all, using some other liquid as a fluid medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exobiology: The Search for Martian Life | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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