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World famous research professors abound in the department. A lot of them are good lecturers, too, William H. Weston is rated tops. Kenneth V. Thimann, Frederick L. Hisaw, Alfred S. Romer, and George Wald all win praise for interesting well-planned courses...
Also receiving awards were: Bart J. Bok, Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy; Kenneth V. Thimann, professor of Biology; Charles S. Singleton, professor of Romance Languages and Literature; Irving G. Fine '37, assistant professor of Music; George K. Zipf '23, University lecturer; Herbert Bloch, associate professor of Greek and Latin; and Paul M. Doty, assistant professor of Chemistry...
...will use his award to study the Southern Milky Way in the College's Observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa. A book on the physiology of microorganisms is planned by Thimann...
...probably the only greenhouse where weeds and orchids grow side by side, and where people pay more attention to weeds. It's certainly one of the few greenhouses where plants wear bandages. Professor Kenneth V. Thimann put them on after injecting hormones into the stems to see how growth was affected. His investigation of plant galls may lead to new information on animal cancers...
Outlining his work in the current issue of Science, the magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Thimann said, "the experiments are being continued, as they give promise of the possible reclamation of land which up to now was considered virtually unavailable...