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Loeb   /loʊb/   Listen
Loeb

noun
1.
United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).  Synonym: Jacques Loeb.






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"Loeb" Quotes from Famous Books



... what I lacked in looks I must make up in eloquence. That I've done. I get what I go after. As the back-stop and still small voice of old Benavides I made all the great historical powers-behind-the-throne, such as Talleyrand, Mrs. de Pompadour, and Loeb, look as small as the minority report of a Duma. I could talk nations into or out of debt, harangue armies to sleep on the battlefield, reduce insurrections, inflammations, taxes, appropriations or surpluses with a few words, and call up the dogs of war or the dove of peace with the ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

... artist," whose work on the concert stage has given such pleasure to lovers of violin music at its best. The young violinist, who in the course of the same week had just won two prizes in composition—the Pulitzer Prize (Columbia) for a string quartet, and the Loeb Prize for a symphonic poem—was amiably willing to talk of his study experience for the benefit of ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens

... Mendelism became the most debated point of the discussion; the transmission of characters has a wonderful fascination for the human mind. There was also a point striking deep in the debate on Professor Loeb's experiments with sea urchins; how far had he succeeded in reproducing the species without the male spermatozoa? Not very far, it seemed, when all ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott



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