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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antiScriptural" discoveries. Soon the Vatican will publish "an exhaustive study ... to place in its true light the aid and favor Galileo enjoyed at the hands of the Church." The Very Rev. Agostino Gemelli, president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, who made the announcement, added that "Galileo as a scientist and author of new astronomical discoveries was never persecuted by the Church, but was greatly helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Surprise for Galileo | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Hauser stopped calling himself an M.D. when the American Medical Association's Bureau of Investigation checked up on his credentials. Now he prefers to be known as "a food scientist." He claims to have been cured of tuberculosis of the hip by eating "36 lemons a day," for one or two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Garbo's Gayelord | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...trustee of evolutionary progress," Julian Huxley, distinguished British scientist, said in his talk to a near overflow crowd at the New Lecture Hall last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Man Alone Able to Progress--Huxley | 2/4/1942 | See Source »

Latest developments of the theory of evolution will be discussed by Julian Huxley, distinguished British scientist and social philosopher, tonight at eight o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Julian Huxley Speaks On Evolution Tonight | 2/3/1942 | See Source »

Inventor of the camera, the late Bernhard Schmidt of Germany's Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory first described the device in 1931, but with uncooperative vagueness unusual in a scientist. U.S. astronomers-mostly amateurs-grasped Schmidt's hints, figured out how his lens, reflector and film must have been designed and assembled. When they had cleared up details in several experimental models, major U.S. observatories began building larger Schmidts. The biggest (24-36 inch) was dedicated last fortnight at Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Observatory, and others are nearing completion this week at Harvard, Mt. Palomar, Tonantzintla, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wide-Eyed Camera | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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