Word: geneticist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barbara McClintock, geneticist, Doctor of Science...
...only woman to receive an honorary degree is Barbara McClintock, a geneticist known for her experiments with cell structure. Harvard also honored another scientist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an astrophysicist...
MARRIED. Dr. Mary I. Bunting, 68, geneticist, president of Radcliffe College (1960-72) and first female member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1964-65); and Dr. Clement A. Smith, 77, professor emeritus of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School; both for the second time; in Cambridge, Mass...
...notice has been served on Rorvik and Lippincott-and, indirectly, on other authors and publishers-that it may well be costly to print as fact books that are fictitious or, even worse, hoaxes. Charging that Rorvik and Lippincott have done just that, Oxford University Geneticist J. Derek Bromhall last week filed a $7 million libel suit against them. Bromhall, a respected scientist, notes that he would not have brought suit had Image been published as fiction. But as nonfiction, he says, the book has "defamed" him by quoting from his research "so as to create the impression that Bromhall...
Lucky for Rorvik. Cancer Researcher Beatrice Mintz called Image "unquestionably a work of fiction." She characterized the book as "mildly amusing, though not in ways intended by the author," and said that it was full of "scientific boners." Charged Geneticist Clement Markert: "Rorvik is guilty of false and misleading advertising." Others noted that no mammals, let alone humans, had yet been cloned. They voiced concern that tracts like Image, passed off as present fact, might cause public reaction against cloning techniques used in cancer, aging and other important medical research...