Word: speri
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...years Dr. George Speri Sperti and his associates in Cincinnati have been studying the effects on yeast cells and other organic material of ultraviolet radiation obin the short, lethal wave lengths. It was noticed that when some cells were injured by radiation, the life processes of uninjured cells were stimulated. The Cincinnati researchers radiated some yeast cells long enough to kill them all, then took the fluid containing the cell corpses, centrifuged and filtered it, added it to a suspension of normal cells. The "respiration" (oxygen intake) of these was observed to increase by 10%. It appeared that before they...
...George Speri Sperti, 37, is a devout Catholic, one of six U. S. members of Pope Pius' Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He used to be a laboratory director at the University of Cincinnati. When the Archdiocese of Cincinnati established the Institutum Divi Thomae as part of the Ohio Athenaeum (collection of Catholic schools), Biochemist Sperti became a full professor there. Atheistic scientists are not admitted to the Institutum Divi Thomae "because they cannot think straight...
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