Royal Raymond Rife was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography.
Royal Rife
Royal Raymond Rife (age 43) in Popular Science Magazine (June 1931)
Rife machine (1922)
Pleomorphism (microbiology)
In microbiology, pleomorphism, also pleiomorphism, is the ability of some microorganisms to alter their morphology, biological functions or reproductive modes in response to environmental conditions. Pleomorphism has been observed in some members of the Deinococcaceae family of bacteria. The modern definition of pleomorphism in the context of bacteriology is based on variation of morphology or functional methods of the individual cell, rather than a heritable change of these characters as previously believed.
Coxiella burnetii bacteria displaying pleomorphism