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at the base of the skull. first to operate successfully for goiter. 16. Wendell Meredith Stanley (b. 1904) 1946 Nobel Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (b. 1900) 1953 Nobel Lau- Laureate in Chemistry who crystallized tobacco reate in Physiology and Medicine who contrib- mosaic virus and found it was still infectious uted so fundamentally to the understanding of when liquefied. the citric acid cycle. Sarah Elizabeth Stewart (b. 1906) Isolated and Frederick Chapman Robbins (b. 1916) 1954 No- characterized polyoma virus. bel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine for Wilhelm Wundt (b. 1832) Father of experimental the tissue culture of polio virus, who studied psychology. the epidemiology of Q fever and the immunology 17. Fritz Frank (b. 1856) Introduced extraperitoneal of mumps. caesarean section (1906) -now called Frank's op- 26. Prince Albert (b. 1819) Married Queen Vic- eration. toria, siring textbook classic history of hemo- Charles Bernard Lipman (b. 1883) Discovered philia heredity. symbiosis between blue-green algae and nitro- Charles Robert Richet (b. 1850) 1913 Nobel gen-fixing bacteria; showed bacteria could sur- Laureate in Physiology and Medicine for work vive centuries of desiccation (in pre-Inca bricks). on anaphylaxis-hypersensitive reaction of body 18. Meriwethe.r Lewis (b. 1774) Explorer of Lewis to foreign substances. Downloaded from http://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/31/5/337/25343/4442598.pdf by guest on 02 October 2021 and Clark fame. 1883-Island of Krakatao "blew up." 19. Robert Brainard Corey (b. 1897) With L. Paul- 27. Sir William Maddock Bayliss (d. 1924) Dis- ing, suggested helical alpha configuration of poly- covered hormone secretin and introduced saline peptides. injection in treatment of surgical shock. Roman Vishniac (b. 1897) Premier cinephotog- 28. Robert Day Allen (b. 1927) Postulated a fun- rapher of protozoa, in addition to studies of damental theory to explain amoeboid movement. physiology of ciliates and plasma circulation of George Hoyt Whipple (b. 1878) 1934 Nobel Lau- unicellular plants. reate in Physiology and Medicine found correla- 20.1912-Plant Quarantine Act became law. tion between liver and hemoglobin in dogs and 21. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (d. 1762) Before who studied protein metabolism with C14 lysines Jenner, had son inoculated to smallpox accord- as well as body use and distribution of vitamin ing to Turkish practice (c. 1717) and met op- B12 labelled with Co60. position when she introduced the practice in 29. Werner Forssmann (b. 1904) 1956 Nobel Laure- England. ate in Physiology and Medicine who performed 22. Gregory Goodwin Pincus (d. 1967) Developer a cardiac cathertization upon himself. of oral contraceptive pill, Enovid, and hormone 30. Maurice Ralph Hilleman (b. 1919) Has con- for treating breast cancer, Estrone. ducted fundamental work on mumps vaccine, 23. Georges L. C. F. D. Cuvier (b. 1769) Founder of interferon, and host resistance. comparative anatomy. Theodor Svedberg (b. 1884) 1926 Nobel Laureate 24. Donald Joyce Borror (b. 1907) Author of classic in Chemistry who developed the ultracentrifuge. text about insects and researcher in Odonata Curt Stern (b. 1902) Drosophila genetics. and ornithology. 31. Herman Ludwig Ferdinand Helmholtz (b. 1821) 25. Emil Theodor Kocher (b. 1841) 1909 Nobel Lau- Invented the ophthalmoscope and was first to reate in Physiology and Medicine who was the measure the velocity of nerve impulses.

but there are interesting sections on the biological sciences. Papers were the place of science in the curriculum, presented in English, French, or Span- teaching and administrative personnel, ish. Those presented in French or facilities, evaluation, and especially the Spanish were summarized in English. section on the place of the science The two from the U. S. are the program in the community. thoughtful and detailed paper by Hulda Thus, this turns out to be a useful Grobman on the BSCS and the critical adjunct to the reading assignments of review of BSCS by David Ausubel the methods course and other educa- printed earlier in this journal. tion courses in the curriculum. For the The other papers cover a large range SCIENCETEACHING AIDS experienced teacher there is not much of topics including biophysics, ethology, NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN SCIENCE TEACH- that is new, but it is a useful and historical method, school gardens, ING, Eugene C. Lee, 111 pp., Wads- succinct summary for the teacher in field trips, ecology, physical sciences worth Publishing Company, Belmont, the making. in biology, as well as specific national California, 1967. problems in Morocco, Tunisia, Rumania, A paperback in the Wadsworth NEW TRENDS IN BIOLOGY TEACHING, Vol. Czechoslovakia, U.S.S.R., England, and Guides to Science Teaching series and I, R. Heller, Ed., 298 pp., UNESCO, Israel. The papers are largely descrip- which reviews the various curriculum Paris, France, 1967. tive of present practices. revision efforts. Of course, there is no A paperback containing papers by There is little coherency to all this, in-depth treatment of any of them, European and American educators in but it is similar to conference pro-

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