Word: retina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Emory L. Chaffe has done his principal work in the realm of electric oscillation and electric waves, with special reference to vacuum-tube phenomena. He has also devoted himself to biophysical problems, notably to a study of the electric response of the retina when stimulated by light...
...some lizards and other reptiles and in the larva of the lamprey, the pineal gland is on a stalk (like a crayfish's eyes) and is near the top of the head. Here it has a distinguishable retina and lens. French Philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed: "There is a small gland [the pineal] in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions more particularly than in the other parts." Contemporaries agreed...