Word: wald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet authorities barred George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, from attending a scientific symposium on Moscow on Thursday...
...will be called "John Doe") was in one way unique: Doe was the only student of the thirty-five to enter Mass Hall after the start of the occupation. A tutor at the time, he recalls receiving a 7 a.m. phone call in his Claverly room from George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, informing him that black students had just taken over Mass Hall, and asking him if he knew any details of the protest action. The graduate student, who belonged to H-R Afro, told Wald he'd go down to Mass Hall to check out the report...
...vanished. Infuriated by unreasoning opposition to the new discoveries, James Watson-who, with Francis Crick, won a Nobel Prize for determining the double-helix structure of the DNA (for deoxyribonucleic acid) molecule-has labeled the critics "kooks," "shits" and "incompetents." One of his targets is fellow Nobel Laureate George Wald, who has supported efforts to ban recombinant DNA research at Harvard and M.I.T. Wald contends that instead of trying to find the roots of cancer, for example, through genetic research, society can fight the disease more effectively by taking carcinogens out of the environment...
Egged on by Wald and his biologist wife, Ruth Hubbard, Cambridge's Mayor Alfred Velluci used the escalating DNA furor to badger his old foe, Harvard. He convened the city council in an effort to halt DNA research at the school. Said Velluci: "Something could crawl out of the laboratory, such as a Frankenstein." At the council's request, Harvard and M.I.T. agreed to a moratorium on P-3 research while an eight-member citizens' review board studied the issue. In February, the council overrode Velluci and passed an ordinance permitting recombinant DNA work to be resumed...
...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology and Nobel laureate, will address the Junior Day crowd at 3:30 p.m. in Science Center D. His speech, like the panel discussions, will be open to all students...