Word: physiologists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, famed Russian physiologist, author of Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes, refused an official celebration of his 80th birthday at Leningrad. Reason: Physiologist Pavlov is no friend of Communism. Said he, "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists." Mindful that upon his research rests the behavioristic "Science of Marxism" and Marxian doctrine, the Soviet tolerates his slaps gently and without reproach, babies him. Birthday gifts from the Soviet to him include $50,000 endowment of his laboratory and an assurance that traffic would be diverted from the street near it so as not to disturb...
...British coast. Aboard the Tilbury was Rear Admiral Henry Edgar Grace, commander of British submarines, taking a new diving apparatus which in tests oil the Firth of Forth had descended successfully to a depth of 300 feet. In London, King's Messenger routed from his bed Professor Leonard Hill, physiologist of the National Institute of Medical Research, authority on deep sea diving, and despatched him north to join the rescue fleet...
...Ringer's solution (after Sidney Ringer, English physiologist, 1835-1910) resembles blood serum in composition. One formula contains sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, water...
...animal's appetite usually increases with the time it has gone without food. But there seems to be an increasing number of human animals who do not develop an appetite even when undernourished. Professor Anton Julius Carlson, physiologist of the University of Chicago, has found out this animal anomaly and stated so to Chicago dietitians last week. It may explain why office clerks, shoppers, draymen and school children seem to be increasingly satisfied with a sandwich-and-milkshake lunch at the widespreading U. S. "sandwich bars...
...wrote, last week, Professor Yandell Henderson (physiologist) and Assistant Professor Maurice Rea Davie (sociologist) from Yale, again expressing the trite thought that college professors earn too little...