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Enter Radiation. About this time a new thing happened to genetics. Since the beginning, geneticists had regretted the scarcity of mutated flies, corn. etc.. to work with. The scarcity ended in 1926 when Professor Hermann J. Muller. now of Indiana University, discovered that X rays applied to fruit flies or any other living organism, create a wealth of mutations, apparently by damaging the genes in their chromosomes. Muller, too, won a Nobel Prize, and soon most genetics laboratories had X-ray machines and were buzzing with dwarfed, twisted, crippled or half-alive fruit flies whose ancestors had been Xrayed...
...When Muller made this discovery, he may have heard a roll of distant thunder, but he could not have known what it meant. In the year 1926, long before Hiroshima, no man-made radioactivity was at large on earth outside the range of X-ray machines and radium capsules, and none was expected. No one suspected that in less than 20 years the mutation-producing effects of radiation would be a worldwide worry...
...Canada Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, formerly Director General of the U.N. World Health Organization. In this country, in addition to Dr. Corliss Lamont '24, of the philosophical faculty of Columbia Univ., to whom I referred previously, there are--to mention only a few--such men as Dr. Hermann J. Muller, professor of zoology at the Univ. of Indiana, Nobel Laureate in medicine (genetics), now president of the American Humanist Association (A.H.A.); Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, Ass't Dean of the Medical School at Ohio State University, now vice-president of the A.H.A.; Dr. George Axtelle, professor of education...
Political Reasons. Indiana University's famed Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Dr. Hermann Muller, who had signed Pauling's stop-the-tests petition of 9,235 scientists (2,749 from Communist Rumania), staked out his view that while the scientific perils of fallout have been exaggerated, tests ought to be stopped for political reasons-"desirable for the easing of tensions...
...Otto Muller's Standing Nude in Landscape cannot be called cacophonous, but the element of good painting it in fact possesses only makes its faults doubly inexcusable. The figure, standing amidst branches, two of which are her arms, possesses all the spiritual truth of a chic cosmetics ad. Like the surrounding stuff by Schmidt-Rotluff, Rohlfs, Pechstein, et al, there is a point here, a point there, a little theory everywhere, but not so very much cohesive painting when all is said and done...