Richard Becker 1887-1955

Carl Richard Moore (1892-1955)

Carl Richard Moore studied sex hormones [3] in animals in the US from 1916 until his death in 1955. Moore focused on the role of hormones [4] on sex differentiation [5] in animals, the optimal conditions under which males produce sperm [6], and the effects of vasectomy or testicular implants on male sex hormone [7] production. Moore's experiments to create hermaphrodites in the laboratory contr...

Victor Jollos ( 1887 - 1941 )

Victor Jollos studied fruit flies and microorganisms in Europe and the US, and he introduced the concept of Dauermodifikationen in the early 1900s. The concept of Dauermodifikationen refers to environmentally-induced traits that are heritable for only a limited number of generations. Some scientists interpreted the results of Jollos's work on Paramecium [4] and Drosophila [5] as evidence for cy...

The Pasteur Institute (1887- )

L'Institut Pasteur (The Pasteur Institute) is a non-profit private research institution founded by Louis Pasteur on 4 June 1887 in Paris, France. The Institute's research focuses on the study of infectious diseases, micro-organisms, viruses, and vaccines. As of 2014, ten scientists have received Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine for the research they have done at the Pasteur Institute. Con...

G . Polya , 1887 - 1985

Jakab was a lawyer in the Budapest office of the Assicurazioni Generali of Trieste, a large international insurance firm. Before joining the company he had had a private law practice. His real interests, however, lay in economics and statistics and he continued to study these on the side, in the hope of obtaining an academic position in economics, so that he could devote full time to research. ...

William Robin Thompson, 1887-1972.