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NOUN
- United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924)
How To Use Loeb In A Sentence
- Thus it was that the interpretations of J. Loeb (Die Tropismen, 1913) on the basis of experiments done with lower animals, estab - lished the neologist ideas of “phototropism” (orien - tation or displacement reaction in the direction of light), and of “thermotropism” (reaction directed to - wards a source of heat), to explain animal and perhaps also human behavior. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- - Marcus Tullius Cicero, De amicitia, lib. vii (ca. 45 BCE) (my transl.) (in the Loeb edition of the works of Cicero, vol. 20, p. 132). Balkinization
- The story [21] entitled Leda is again typical of Loeben. Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei
- He is the humbly born Brooklyn boy who built Shearson Loeb Rhodes from the parts of dozens of brokerages and then sold it to American Express.
- The deal sealed in public, Loeb hotfooted it out of there, leaving us wondering: PR stunt or blue-sky thinking? Real-life violence rocks the Comic-Con nerds in San Diego
- Loeb, the newspaper publisher, gained a national reputation as a spiteful manipulator of politics.
- To trigger parthenogenesis, then, Loeb had to simulate fertilisation.
- Sophie Simon Loeb was born in Rovno, Russia, on July 4, 1876. Sophie Irene Simon Loeb.
- The new lineup reveals accomplished "smooth" jazzman Chuck Loeb, who made his Fourplay debut at the Seabreeze Jazz Festival in Florida earlier this year.
- Given that there are over 255 million cellphone users in the United States leads one to believe that the life-taking effects of cellphones on pedestrian fatalities is greater than the life-saving effect," Loeb and Clarke concluded. Walking while texting? There oughta be a law