Word: geneticist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile London's universities were in even sadder case. The Government ordered the unwilling University of London out of town, dispersed its various colleges and departments to about a dozen places. One university professor refused to be driven. To his workshop, the Galton laboratory, established by famed Geneticist Sir Francis Galton, marched bearded, burly Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher with two women assistants. When guards stopped the assistants, Professor Fisher used his fists, succeeded in storming his own laboratory. There he patched up his party's wounds, went grimly to work...
...Geneticist Frederick Adams Woods, who lives in Rome and loves to count, tabulated the fecundity of Englishmen listed in Who's Who. Issued last week were his findings: businessmen have three times as many children as artists and authors. Fecundity, reasons Geneticist Woods, depends upon an inheritable desire to leave descendants. The family-minded are usually practical, go into business...
...Formal genetics" has also been attacked in Russia by Professor T. D. Lysenko, a practical trial-&-error plant breeder of the school of Luther Burbank. It has been defended by Professor N. I. Vaviloff, an academic geneticist of international repute. The letter-writing students admired practical Lysenko, scorned academic Vaviloff. That the Kremlin Government does not know just what to make of this howdydo is evident from the fact that both Lysenko and Vaviloff have been permitted to air their views in the Soviet press...
Died. Dr. Calvin Blackman Bridges. 49, famed geneticist, whose experiments with the fruit fly shed new light on the problems of heredity; after long illness; in Los Angeles...
Colchicine. The major plant hormones already known are Auxins A and B and heteroauxin (TIME, Oct.11). Dr. Albert Francis Blakeslee, distinguished geneticist of the Carnegie Institution, reported discovery of a new plant hormone which he calls colchicine. It increases the growth rate of tobacco, phlox, onions, pumpkins, cosmos, radishes, portulaca, digitalis, jimson weed. The growth acceleration seems to be related to a doubling of certain segments of the chromosomes, heredity carriers in the germplasm. Colchicine also renders hybrid plants-which are normally sterile-fertile. Dr. Blakeslee pointed out that this action is as important in plant science as it would...