Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when many scientists of bright repute have relaxed their efforts and slipped into the role of inspiring figureheads and advisers to younger men, Oscar Riddle remains in the front line of research...
...Explosion? Standard theory for the origin of the sun's cohort of planets is that the material which formed them was pulled from the sun by the tidal action of a passing star. Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory has worked out the dynamics of a new theory which he last week presented. He believes that the sun, like hundreds of "novae" (exploding stars) which astronomers have studied, lost its balance, figuratively speaking, some two or three billion years ago and blew up, hurling out planetary material before subsiding to its smaller and comparatively placid state...
Scientific research into the pituitary was not pushed until the 1920s, when Herbert McLean Evans of the University of California caused rats to become giants by injecting them with crude pituitary extract. He dwarfed rats by pituitary removal, then with pituitary injections restored them to normal size. He made it clear that the reddish little gland was intimately concerned with one of the most important of biological processes-growth. Since then the veil of ignorance has been gradually lifted...
...natural history expedition to South America's Orinoco River, was well on the way to becoming an ichthyologist when a lecture on evolution gave a new turn to his career. He went to the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor in 1912 as a research associate, and, except for a Wartime sojourn in France, has stayed there ever since...
...only hobby nowadays is the propagation of biologic truth-which, says Oscar Riddle, provides man with his "just hope for grandeur and power, and happiness." No cloistered, secretive scientist, he constantly sallies forth to preach the necessity of wider understanding of biological research...