Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dowdy little old zoologist, pottering in spectacles and carpet slippers among millions of bottled fruit flies at Pasadena, last week went the 1933 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cried Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan with academic orthodoxy...
...Arbor last week the University of Michigan's Zoologist Lee R. Dice announced to the Michigan Academy of Sciences his discovery that this ear defect is hereditary not only in the mice of Japan. He has found it in four strains of the common American deer mouse. Because this offers one of the few non-human instances in which abnormal behavior can be traced to a definite hereditary characteristic. Dr. Dice believes that further study of affected mice may help man to understand how he inherits nervous peculiarities...
...Hyman, 44, youngest of the trio, was astonished at her distinction. She is a zoologist, received her training and gained her reputation in Dr. Charles Manning Child's laboratory at the University of Chicago. She resigned that research appointment in 1931 to devote herself to scientific writing, first taking a year off in Europe "just having a good time." Last week she was in much the same position as an unemployed stage star. Science seemed to have forgotten her, save as a name. The University of Chicago believed she was living in Brooklyn. Investigation found...
Died, William Jacob Holland, 84. butterfly man, director emeritus of Carnegie Institute; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh. Author (the definitive Butterfly Book), paleontologist (specialties: diplodocus, dinosaur), zoologist, explorer, museum administration expert, artist, teacher, clergyman, "he knew everything about so many things that [he] . . . may well cause special wonder...
...what many experts regard as the best all-round collection in the world.* Mammals, reptiles, insects have come too. From Tring issues sporadically the learned Novitates Zoologicae, and occasionally a story for the Press about fleas, of which it has the world's premier collection. The fortune of Zoologist Rothschild has not escaped Depression. Last year the second Baron Rothschild, now grown to look like a huge-paunched, twinkle-eyed St. Nick with a Ph.D., wrote the American Museum a reluctant letter offering to sell most of his birds. They had cost him around $1,000,000, but when...