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Princeton's energetic Sir Hugh Stott Taylor, 68, noted physical chemist who headed the department of chemistry from 1926 to 1951. has been dean of the university's Graduate School since 1945. Lancashire-born Chemist Taylor studied with Nobel Prizewinner Svante Arrhenius at Sweden's Nobel Institute for Physical Chemistry, has stayed in the U.S. since he came for a "brief visit" in 1914. Known for his work in catalysis, photochemistry, radiochemistry and chemical kinetics, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth...
...mother-to-be. But it is no old wives' tale that German measles in the first three months of pregnancy can be crippling or fatal to the fetus (TIME, Dec. 31). Now more such evidence is piling up. In London's Lancet, Psychologist Denis H. Stott of Bristol University reports a study of 102 mentally retarded children, makes a strong case that prenatal influences (as opposed to injury during birth or later illness) are to blame...
...Stott found that 55% of the retarded children had been ailing from birth, usually failing to gain weight, or losing weight, during the first few weeks. This was double the rate among their brothers and sisters (not retarded), three times the rate among unrelated comparison groups...
Like harelip and cleft palate (TIME, Sept. 17), mental retardation may show up oftener in certain families without being directly hereditary by any Mendelian pattern. Dr. Stott's theory: the tendency may be hereditary, and disease or distress during pregnancy may touch...
Rugby and Religion. The Reverend J.R.W. Stott has been packing them in, packing their souls, and packing them out. Tonight's lecture. "Where Will It End," is a climax of his series of speeches entitled, "What Think You Of Christ?" "Where Did It Begin...