Word: bipolar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showing relationship to the simplest animal and yet having the chlorophyll (the green pigment in plants which in the presence of sunlight is responsible for photosynthesis, the union of carbon dioxide and water to form carbohydrates, plant food) of the plant. George Washington Crile, Cleveland bio-electrician (author: A Bipolar Theory of Living Processes), has further united the two by emphasizing the irritability of plant life, its similarity to the nervous system of the animal...
...Berger was looking for electrical brain waves. Although for 50 years similar experiments have been performed on animals, this was the first time a man had been subjected to such difficult research. From such experiments Dr. George Washington Crile of Cleveland developed his bipolar theory: the brain is the positive pole, the liver the negative pole of the body (TIME...