Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British scientists look ahead. An eminent one ? the president of the Royal Anthropological Institute ? last week wrote to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka,* curator of physical anthropology in the National Museum (Washington, D. C.), to notify him that he had been honored with the Huxley Memorial Medal? for 1927 and would be expected in London a year from November to deliver the 1927 Huxley lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. No U.S. scientist save Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard (in 1908) had been so honored. It was recognition, gratifying indeed, of Dr. Hrdlicka's whole career, and in particular...
...have the same household gods and the same patron saints. We are all one. So each one of these meetings looks more and more like a family gathering. I wish that the American Congress were here and the American Senate to watch our proceedings and learn that the scientist and the engineer have discovered the great secret--greater than anything in electrical science or in any other science--the secret of how to lay the true foundation for a true League of Nations...
These are apparently strange words from a pure scientist. Yet Professor Pupin's position and experience merely serve to give them greater weight. Science has made the world smaller, bringing about multifarious political factions. Perhaps it is now going to find a method to eliminate these frictions by establishing a fraternity of science in an age when the fraternity of religion is at best a remembrance. At least any efforts made in that direction will receive the cooperation of intelligent minds scientific or other wise...
...amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch sharks-white and gray streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here was a chance denied to stay-at-home ichthyologists by sea-dredgers of the omniscient and loquacious William Beebe type- a chance to exercise their knowledge by recognizing, perhaps to share the excitement of failing...
...half-bald and bushily mustached culprit thus honored by so informal a trial, was Dr. J. B. S. Haldane, a former reader in biochemistry at Cambridge University, a noted scientist recently much in the public eye*. His experiments and prophecies concerning ectogenesis (laboratory birth) long gave the impression that he believed birth by woman would eventually be done away with. It was therefore with consternation that his friends saw him named as corespondent in an uncontested divorce suit last December. At once the "Sex Viri" of Cambridge ousted him from his readership. His trial last week was an appeal from...