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May 27, 1961 (a Saturday)
On this date, in a laboratory on the seventh floor of Building 10 on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland at three o’clock in the morning, Matthaei combined the synthetic RNA made only of uracil… more »
Professor Olsen @ Large
July 20, 1822 (a Saturday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 6 days ago: The earliest known photograph of Gregor Mendel. On this date, Gregor Johann Mendel was born (the da … more »
July 5, 1904 (a Tuesday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 3 weeks ago: Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr. On this date, the American biologist Ernst Mayr was born in Germa … more »
April 1, 1578
Bruce Olsen wrote 3 months ago: On this date, the English physician and scientist William Harvey was born. He is credited with bein … more »
What's a cell-adhesion protein like you doing in a unicellular organism like me?
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Bruce Olsen wrote 3 months ago: The principle of common descent in evolutionary theory means that all living organisms are related t … more »
February 17, 1890 (a Monday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 5 months ago: On this date, the English geneticist Ronald Aylmer Fisher was born. His book The Genetical Theory o … more »
February 16, 1834 (a Sunday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 5 months ago: On this date, the German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, and artist Ernst Heinrich Ph … more »
February 7, 1877 (a Wednesday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 5 months ago: On this date, the English mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy was born. Although Hardy considered him … more »
February 3, 1857 (a Tuesday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 5 months ago: On this date, the Danish botanist and geneticist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen was born. His experiments … more »
January 17, 1834 (a Friday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 6 months ago: On this date, the German biologist August (Friedrich Leopold) Weismann was born in Frankfurt. Ernst … more »
December 21, 1889 (a Saturday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 7 months ago: On this date, the American mathematician and biologist Sewell Green Wright was born. He was one of … more »
November 7, 1840 (a Saturday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 8 months ago: On this date, the Russian founder of comparative embryology and experimental histology Aleksandr Onu … more »
November 5, 1892 (a Saturday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 8 months ago: On this date, British geneticist and biometrician John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was born. He was on … more »
November 4, 1855 (a Sunday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 8 months ago: On this date, the botanist Frederick Orpen Bower was born in Ripon, England. His study of primitive … more »
October 11, 1993 (a Monday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 9 months ago: On this date, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology o … more »
September 25, 1866 (a Tuesday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 10 months ago: On this date, the American embryologist and geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan was born in Lexington, Ken … more »
September 19, 1864 (a Monday)
Bruce Olsen wrote 10 months ago: On this date, the German botanist and geneticist Carl Erich Correns was born. He is famous for redi … more »
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