Word: protistologist
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...Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), unlearned Dutch merchant's clerk, was first man to recognize bacteria and protozoa with a microscope. But not until Louis Pasteur did anyone explain the meaning of Leeuwenhoek's "little animals." Last year Clifford Dobell, English protistologist (student of unicellular organisms), nephew of the man who invented Dobell's Solution, after learning 17th Century Dutch to interpret bad contemporary Latin translations of Leeuwenhoek's unscientific Dutch, published a Leeuwenhoek biography (Harcourt, Brace, $7.50). Its Latin dedication translates: "This work of a dead Dutchman the English editor (as an animalcule...
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