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2026-10-06 Google Search (Chrome) - Rahn-Otto

Run: Investigator STEP I, first run (no earlier sites.md). Searching started at epoch 1791322883; stopped at about 8 min. Note on names: "Otto Rahn" also matches the German writer Otto Rahn (1904-1939, Kreuzzug gegen den Gral), who is unrelated. Queries must add "Cornell", "bacteriology" or "mitogenetic".

Queries and what came back

  1. "Otto Rahn" Cornell bacteriology "mitogenetic" - Rahn, O. (1934) "The Disagreement in Mitogenetic Experiments, a Problem in Bacterial Physiology", J. Bacteriol. 28(2):153-158 (PMC533662) [web] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC533662/ - Wainwright, M. (1998) Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Project MUSE); snippet calls Rahn's book "impressive and influential" [web] https://muse.jhu.edu (blocked, see project-muse note) - JAMA 107(5) and ACS (J. Chem. Educ. or similar) 1936-37 book reviews of Invisible Radiations of Organisms [web] https://jamanetwork.com (jama_107_5_032), https://pubs.acs.org (not opened) - Rahn, O. (1933) "Problems in Growth Chemistry" (JSTOR), section headed "Prevention of Growth Acceleration by Absorbing the Mitogenetic Rays by means of Gelatin" [web] https://www.jstor.org (not opened) - Science 79(2061):584 (1934): Cold Spring Harbor symposium programme lists "mitogenetic rays, Rahn" [web] https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.79.2061.584 (not opened) - Journal of Bacteriology index lists "Mitogenetic irradiation (title only), 718" and Ione Huntington and Otto Rahn [web] journals.asm.org (not opened) - Tompkins and Bird, The Secret Life of Plants (1973): mentions Rahn and his book, and Rahn examining Hieronymus's work [web] archive.org (not opened; later popular account)
  2. Wainwright 1998 "mitogenetic rays" "Perspectives in Biology and Medicine" Rahn - led to Naumova et al. 2018 (see jbpe note) and Cifra et al. 2011 "Electromagnetic cellular interactions" (Academia.edu, not opened).
  3. "Otto Rahn" Cornell memorial statement bacteriology 1881 - Cornell Faculty Memorial Statement: Otto Rahn, 9 April 1881 - 26 September 1957 (cited by Singleton 2017, J. Hist. Biol., "Albert Jan Kluyver and the Unity of Life") [web] https://link.springer.com ; see ecommons-cornell note - Jeff Weber Rare Books catalogue 279 (2022): "Otto Rahn served as Professor of Bacteriology at Cornell University from 1927 until 1949" [web] https://www.weberrarebooks.com - The Theosophical Quarterly (1932?) reports Rahn's lecture on "the influence of human radiation" [web] http://www.iapsop.com (not opened) - Incredible Life: A Handbook of Biological Mysteries (Corliss compilation) reprints a 1932 press item on Rahn's human-radiation work [web] archive.org (not opened)
  4. Rahn "physico-chemical basis of biological radiations" Cold Spring Harbor symposia 1934 - see cshlp note; also OUCI and Springer 1992 book Ultra-Weak Photon Emission from Biological Systems cite it.
  5. Volodyaev Beloussov 2015 "Revisiting the mitogenetic effect of ultra-weak photon emission" - see frontiers note.
  6. Hollaender Claus 1937 "experimental study of the problem of mitogenetic radiation" National Research Council Bulletin - NLM catalogue record; Nature news 1937 (see nature note); W. Gerlach (1939) "Existiert die mitogenetische Strahlung?", Naturwissenschaften (review of Hollaender and Claus) [web] https://link.springer.com (not opened)
  7. "Otto Rahn" "human radiation" OR Hieronymus OR "fingertip" bacteriologist - New York Times 25 June 1932 (see nytimes note); Papers Past 1932 (see paperspast note); University of Illinois trustees: "Otto Rahn, Assistant Professor (3 years, from Sept. 1, 1913)" [web] https://uihistories.library.illinois.edu
  8. Rahn Barnes 1933 oxycholesterol OR "oxy-cholesterol" radiation yeast OR menotoxin - D. I. Macht (1949) "Concerning the chemical nature of menstrual toxin", Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol., cites "Rahn, O. Barnes, M.N. Morphological Changes in Yeast Induced by Biological Radiation, Diss." [web] https://www.ajog.org ; and Macht's "Experimental studies, old and new, on menstrual toxin" (APA PsycNet): "Rahn and his co-workers claimed that oxycholesterol emits destructive ultraviolet rays and that these rays are responsible for the yeast inhibiting effects" [web] https://psycnet.apa.org - Bearing: the "Barnes and Rahn 1933" oxy-cholesterol work may be by M. N. Barnes (a Cornell dissertation), not by Sidney W. Barnes, the physicist who wrote Chapter I. facts.json should not assume the two are the same person. Claim 6.
  9. Wainwright Killham Russell Grayston 1997 "Partial evidence for the existence of mitogenetic radiation" - see pubmed note.