Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Akihito, 37, has inherited his father's biological interests and specializes in fish morphology. Second Son Hitachi, 35, is also a scientist. One of his specialties is Japanese bird lice. Hirohito's youngest daughter, the chic former Princess Suga, 32, was once a disk jockey in Tokyo, is now consultant in a boutique in Tokyo's Prince Hotel...
Died. Dr. Bernardo A. Houssay, 84, first South American scientist to win the Nobel Prize; in Buenos Aires. Houssay won the 1947 prize in medicine for discovering the role of pituitary hormones in the metabolism of sugar-a breakthrough that played a significant part in the understanding and treatment of diabetes. To the embarrassment of Argentine Dictator Juan Perón, Houssay was awarded the prize shortly after being fired from his post at the University of Buenos Aires for signing a pro-democratic manifesto. The fiercely independent scientist was reinstated following Perón's ouster...
Finally, ORSA had claimed that Weisner had incorrectly charged the Defense Department's top scientist, John Foster, of having altered data in order to gain support for the ABM system. In testifying before the Senate, Weisner had said that Foster at one point estimated the number of Soviet SS-9 missiles at 500 and later changed this estimate to 600. According to ORSA, this charge was unfair because Foster was talking about estimates for different years...
Medvedev irritated Soviet authorities when two of his works reached the West. In 1969 the Columbia University Press printed The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, a devastating history of how the crackpot genetic theories of Stalin's pet scientist were established as unassailable dogma until the fall of Khrushchev...
...original 4.6 billion-year-old crust. Indeed, the scientific dividends from Apollo 15 were proving to be so great that NASA announced that it was giving a berth to astronaut-geologist Harrison Schmitt on the final scheduled moon voyage, Apollo 17, next year. Thus, he will become the first scientist to walk the moon...