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Summary of concentrators comments on men in the Biochemistry Department: Edsall--good director, inspiring tutor. Henderson--superb lecturer on philosophy and method, but he does not cover his field. Detached, uninterested in students, unavailable. Greenstein--good lecturer and organizer, clear and understandable when lecturing in Chem 15, Junes--good scientist, fair tutor, not very interested in tutees. Ferry--superb tutor, available and inspiring, Ritchings good scientist, fair tutor Danielson and Forter fair scientists not enthusiastic tutors. Forbes, Keys and Morisou good tutors
...National Academy of Sciences (membership limited to 300) and a few outsiders listened attentively last week from their comfortable leather chairs when old Dr. Boas stood up in the Academy's severe, oak-paneled lecture room to deliver what was probably his last public address as a practicing scientist. Next month Dr. Boas will retire from the faculty of Columbia University, which he joined 40 years...
Generally credited with having done more to popularize the doctrine of Evolution than any other man, Huxley was not a scientist of Darwin's stature, was well content to dub himself "Darwin's bulldog." He had other claims to renown. In biology and paleontology he became one of the foremost groundbreakers...
Beagle, told what a young scientist thinks about on the threshold of his career. But Huxley's diary, unlike Darwin's, was not preoccupied by scientific fact nor visited by intimations of a great theory. A young medico of wide interests, with a keen eye and a susceptible heart, he wrote surprisingly little about his first big research...
...with diamond-pointed ruling machines it is extremely difficult to rule hundreds of thousands of such infinitesimal lines accurately on hard metal or glass. Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (see above), Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum...