Gairdner Bostwick Moment
04 May 1905 – August 1990
Gairdner Bostwick Moment was born May 5, 1905, in Brooklyn, New York. He always called himself a "late bloomer," if a late bloomer can be defined as someone who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and then scraped by four years later with a PhD from Yale. Moment was a gifted teacher, and a talented writer. He spent his academic career (1932-1970) at Goucher College, then an all-women's college in Baltimore, Maryland. A non-science major Goucher alumna once said he was the best teacher she ever had. Whereas another professor in the lab would tell her to "look harder" under the microscope
