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From 1957 to 1990 Campbell worked at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, [8] and from 1984 to 1990 he was a Senior Scientist and Director with Assay Research and Development. He became a US citizen in 1964. [9] One of his discoveries while at Merck was the fungicide thiabendazole, used to treat potato blight, historically a scourge of ...
David George Campbell (born January 28, 1949, in Decatur, Illinois, United States) is an American educator, ecologist, environmentalist, and award-winning author of non-fiction. He is the son of George R. Campbell (1918 - 2004) and Jean Blossom Weilepp (1917 - 1998).
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
In 1968 Campbell joined the Department of Biology at Stanford University, where he led his own laboratory. [1] He was appointed to the Barbara Kimball Browning endowed chair in 1992. [2] Campbell was the editor of the Annual Review of Genetics from 1985 to 2012. [8] [9] [10]
Thomas Colin Campbell (born March 14, 1934) [1] is an American biochemist who specializes in the effect of nutrition on long-term health. He is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. [2] [3] [4] Campbell has become known for his advocacy of a low-fat, whole foods, plant-based diet.
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz: Nature and nurture: the interplay of biology and politics in the work of Francis Galton. 133–208. PMID 11609976; Holmes, Frederic L.: Conceptual history: a review of François Jacob, La Logique du Vivant - The Logic of Life. 209–218. PMID 11609977; Vol. 2 (1978) 224 pp. ISBN 0-8018-2034-0
Overview, including some physiological parameters, of the human circadian rhythm ("biological clock").. Chronobiology is a field of biology that examines timing processes, including periodic (cyclic) phenomena in living organisms, such as their adaptation to solar- and lunar-related rhythms. [1]
The history of nature from the Big Bang to the present day with notable events annotated. Every billion years (Ga) is represented by 90 degrees of rotation of the spiral. The last 500 million years are represented in a 90-degree stretch for more detail on our recent history.