Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only Harvard scientist to receive an award is Wilson M. Powoll '26, now a professor of Physics at Kenyon College in Ohio, who will make observations on atomic reactions at high altitudes...
Last week a distinguished scientist, Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Britain's greatest physiologist, ventured an answer-a 413-page book entitled Man on His Nature (Macmillan, $3.75). Sherrington's studies of the nervous system won him a Nobel Prize...
...haphazard operation is Quiz the Scientist. The five or six questions discussed on the program are selected well in advance, and board members often write out their answers to make sure they won't fall into high-toned scientific lingo that would baffle the average listener. Inveterate ad libber is impish Dr. Wood, who likes to preface thoughtful discussions of taste with such of his verses as: "Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and skunks are-phew...
...Quiz the Scientist pays listeners $1 for every question used, receives on the average about 80 a week. Typical query last week: Does a heavy weight drop faster than a light one? Other queries: What makes grass green? What causes the rainbow? What makes the sky blue? Not entirely academic, Quiz the Scientist has included tips from Dr. Kelley for housewives. Not long ago, she told how to clean silverware by using a 10? pie plate made out of tin. By putting the tin plate in a larger aluminum pan and adding warm salt water and soda, the silverware...
...most important plants on earth are grass and diatoms. About grass the shepherd, farmer and scientist know a great deal. About diatoms and dinoflagellates, which are microscopic sea plants (phytoplankton), until the last 30 or 40 years even the scientist has known little. Last week in The Scientific Monthly Marine Biologist Winfred Emory Allen of University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography surveyed his recent researches on diatoms in the Pacific Ocean...