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Victor Chandler Twitty
Victor Chandler Twitty
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hills of northern California." Telling this story reveals much about the rich intellectual en c! personal life of one of the micI-century America's leacling embryologists.
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his choice of Yale University's Department of Zoology for graduate training as "fortuitous and fortunate." The faculty of the Osborn Zoological Laboratory, heaclec! by Ross Granville Harrison, incluclec!
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cell en c! tissue culture in 1910 as a means to investigate growth of the nerve fiber, en c!
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become lifelong friencis or visiting scientists in Twitty's laboratory. Twitty was well aware in 1932 of the tightening of the job market because of the Great Depression, so he clecTinec!
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to frame scientific questions in simple terms, which lee! to straightforward!
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unclerstancling of the experimental approach, his ability to analyze problems into their simpler components, and his appreciation of the role of chance in research en c! discovery, as well as his unusual talent for accepting scientific or personal disappointment philosophically.
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CouIc! animals return home to specific stream sites if mover!
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) , and then looked downstream toward the heavy forest and rugged terrain it had traversed in coming home, my respect for its accomplishment came as near awe and reverence as can be inspired by lowly organisms or possibly even by their highly evolved descendants.
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new paradigms of research were Tong in recovering. Twitty's foresight led to the appointment of Charles Yanofsky, Donalc!
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no interest in leaving his beloved studies of newt homing, he helped assure that those sorts of evolving clisciplines wouIc! thrive in Palo Alto.
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At home on Alvaraclo Row on the Stanforc! campus their annual summer vegetable garden supplied family, friends, and biology department colleagues with sweet corn, zucchini, en c!
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And of him: self-imposed standards of excellence and scientific rigor, clarity in framing scientific questions and experiments, fundamental love and respect for nature, newts, and embryos, and sincere caring for colleagues, students, and family all permeate Twitty's book and make it happy reading. The unusual trail from Harrison and Yale, through Germany and Stanford to newts in Pepperwood Creek is not at all a typical successful science career in the twentieth century.
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Niu. The motivation of cell migration, studied by isolation of embryonic pigment cells singly and in small groups in vitro.
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51:51-59. Fertility of Taricha species-hybrids and viability of their offspring.
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