Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special fields within it. A general education in science needs to be provided for the future scientist or technologist as well as for the general student. One could scarcely insist that all students of history or literature should learn some biology, for example, but that the prospective physicist or chemist need...
...this flow of information is based the official AEC position, recently expressed by Scientist-Commissioner Willard F. Libby. In general. Chemist Libby's view is calm. As a scientist, he knows that fission products from megaton* explosions rise into the stratosphere and circulate round the earth for years. Most threatening of them is strontium 90, whose long half-life (28 years) keeps it potent during its stratospheric circling, and whose habit of lodging for keeps in human bone makes it a probable cause of leukemia and bone cancer...
Just as vehement on the other side is Physical Chemist Linus Pauling of Caltech, who is also a Nobel Prizewinner (1954). "I estimate," says Pauling, "that the bomb tests that have been made so far will ultimately have caused the death of about 1,000,000 people in the world...
...Geochemist Harrison Brown left for Caltech. Later, Economist Jacob Marschak went to Yale; Dean John Jeuck of the business school settled for a professorship at the Harvard business school. Chemist Willard Libby joined the AEC, and Theologian Amos Wilder is now on the faculty of Harvard's revived Divinity School. Last week Chicago lost one of the biggest names of all: Social Scientist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman, 47, whose colleagues have long sensed his growing frustration over a Chicago that seems no longer quite the daring place it once was. In 1958 Harvardman ('31) Riesman will return...
...bomb explosions and for the thousands that will be in the future," called at 10 Downing Street to hand a protest to Prime Minister Macmillan, then trudged off to the House of Commons to buttonhole members. In the House of Lords, Laborite peers cited the estimate of Nobel Prize Chemist Linus Pauling of California's Institute of Technology that 1 ,000 people would die of leukemia as a result of the fallout of the Christmas Island explosion. Earl Attlee, Labor's former Prime Minister now in the House of Lords, said, "Some scientists think we are going...