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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hooke's Cells. Robert Hooke (1635-1703) probably suffered from a mild case of paranoia. A brilliant British scientist, he had many ideas, carried few of them through to solid achievement. He invented a wheel barometer, conceived the idea of using a pendulum as a measure of gravity, helped famed Robert ("Boyle's Law") Boyle make his air pump. He clearly conceived the motion of heavenly bodies as a mechanical problem, but his conception was almost obliterated in the glory of Isaac Newton's formulation of the gravity laws. He was jealous of Newton, made violent attacks...
...Robert Hooke's ghost had been in Richmond last week it would have heard something very gratifying. Edwin Grant Conklin, Princeton's famed biologist, declared that it was a mistake to attribute the origin of the biological cell theory, whose centenary is being observed in scientific circles, to two Germans, Schleiden and Swann. "Their theory," said Dr. Conklin, "was a special and in important respects an erroneous one. There is no present biological interest in their theory. . . . Cells were first seen, named, described and figured by Robert Hooke ... 170 years before the work of Schleiden and Swann. Hooke...
...Riddle's great contribution to biology is the recognition and analysis of the major pituitary hormone prolactin, discovered in 1932. This substance is the stuff that makes mothers motherly. In Richmond last week Dr. Riddle and two of his ablest co-workers-Robert Wesley Bates, 34, and James Plummer Schooley, 34-summarized their work on prolactin. Dr. Riddle is also, more than any other U. S. biologist, a crusader for the propagation of biologic truth among plain people, and at a dinner for biologists he steamed them up on the opportunities and obligations of biology teachers...
Arriving in the Independency of San Bias,-the 200th country he has visited in the past 20 years, buck-toothed Robert LeRoy Ripley announced another believe-it-or-not: he himself is now "more widely traveled than Marco Polo, Magellan, and any other human being that ever lived." In an article for the London News-Chronicle, "1939-What Does It Hold," H. G. Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole...
Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat Major for Piano and Strings (E. Robert Schmitz and members of the Roth Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides). An early but likable Beethoven item originally written, as Op. 16, for piano and wind instruments. The performance is well-tooled...