Word: dagobert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobel Prize for his discovery (TIME, Nov. 26), experimenters were finding that heavy water did strange things to small animals and plants. It killed guppies, tadpoles, flatworms, prevented tobacco seeds from sprouting, dimmed the light of luminous bacteria, made mice appear tipsy and terribly thirsty. Then Professor Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh of San Francisco's College of Physicians & Surgeons guessed that a slow, steady increase in the amount of heavy water in the human body might be a cause of old age and senile death...
Professor Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh of San Francisco's College of Physicians & Surgeons communicated to Science a theory that the human body, which continually evaporates its water content, might gradually store up a richer & richer mixture of heavy water, which might well be the cause of old age. Dr. Urey rushed to the defense of his discovery, spurned the Hackh hypothesis as nothing but a theory based on no experiments...