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Cancer Decisions - Free Newsletter - June 26, 2002 |
 | | His initial research was on the embryonic development of parasitic worms and fishes, but he always maintained a larger vision of "the blossoming-forth of life itselfÂ…the phenomena which culminate in the appearance of new living beings" (2). |
| | Along with the Nobel laureate Elie Metchnikoff, Beard was cited by the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911) as one of the five world experts on Myzostomida. |
| | A high point of his career came when the great physician Sir William Osler (1849-1919) referred to Beard’s "patiently worked-out story of the morphological continuity of the germ-plasm" as "one of the fairy-tales of science" (4). |
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