RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
devoted its funds to researches on the effects of
radiations in the fields of genetics, cytology, and
morphology. The results of the work supported
by
this committee have been prepared for
publication in a two-volume work entitled A
Survey of Radiation, to which some forty investigators
have contributed chapters.
Investigations now in the foreground concern
the nature of the action of radiations on the
protoplasm of the cell and its products. Past
investigations of radiation effects have been
qualitative to a predominant degree, for the
complex nature of biological materials scarcely
permits of that definiteness and simplicity attained
in the physical sciences. However, -stress
is placed upon projects and facilities capable of
yielding results as quantitative as the materials
may permit, and upon the fullest utilization of
precise measurements and a rigid control of conditions.
Professor B. M. Duggar, the chairman
of the Committee on Effects of Radiation on
Living Organisms, is professor of physiology
and economic botany at the University of Wisconsin.
University of Leeds
Biophysics
In 1934 the Foundation provided scientific
equipment for Professor W. T. Astbury's researches
on the x-ray analysis of biological ma-
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