Lorande Loss Woodruff Quotes

1879–1947 United States

Lorande Loss Woodruff (July 14, 1879 – June 23, 1947) was an American biologist, professor of protozoology at Yale University, and author of the textbook Foundations of Biology, which went through 6 editions and was widely used in the 1920s and 1930s. He was elected in 1908 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1924 a Member of the U.S.

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With the work of Cordus, Vesalius, and Harvey, biologists had again laid hold of the great scientific tools—observation, experiment, induction—which since have not slipped from their grasp.

Chapter VI. Biology in The Development of the Sciences (1923)

Paramaecia excrete substances which are toxic to themselves when present in their environment, and these substances are more effective when the organisms are confined in limited volumes of culture fluid.

invariably consist of the elements carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur, and frequently phosphorus and iron. Examples are of the white of egg, of milk, of cereals, and of lean meat.

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