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From France came Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie, and Mathematician Henri Laugier. Among England's delegation of 20 were Biologist Julian Huxley, Royal Academician Sir Robert Robinson. England would have sent more but for Winston Churchill's last-minute refusal to grant exit visas to some ten men engaged in war research. From the U.S. came 16, including Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Chemist Irving Langmuir...
Science & the State. One great question troubling the visiting scientists was: can science be free when it is state-controlled? Academician A. F. Joffe undertook to lay their doubts at rest. Said he: "Can scientific research be planned? There are people who claim that fulfillment of any plan is incompatible with the private initiative of a scientist, and that science, aiming at solution of practical problems in industry, agriculture, transport or defense, delays treatment of deeply theoretical problems which promise nothing in the way of practical results in the immediate future. Yet the experience of science in the Soviet Union...
...there was a distressing interruption. Brilliant Academician Charles Maurras, the aged royalist, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration (TIME, Feb. 5). Should he be expelled? Heretofore, the old men had loftily disregarded such problems-one of their colleagues was Marshal Petain. But what had he to do with the letter...
...must to all men, death came last week to 74-year-old, white-maned Aleš Hrdlička (pronounced Alesh Hur-dlich-ka), second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate...
Pochapin fortified himself with a selective jury, headed by veteran Artist John Sloan, assisted by Critic-Painter Walter Pach, Painter Howard Patterson, Academician Alphaeus Philemon Cole. Pochapin's jurymen share his crusading zeal...