Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rochow received the Bakeland Medal for outstanding work on compounds of silicon. A research chemist for general Electric for 13 years, Rochow was made an associate professor...
Perhaps his training as a chemist shaped Conant as a college president. Knowing that the scientist must be at liberty to challenge accepted theories, he considered that same freedom an essential requirement in every field of knowledge. He was not only the leading defender of academic freedom, he was its personification. He would no more fire a good teacher than keep a poor one just because his political opinions were unpopular...
...dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed." Although the judge, the prosecutor and the chief Government witnesses were Jews, the Communists shrieked that the Rosenbergs were convicted because of anti-Semitic bias. The Reds, as usual, succeeded in mobilizing some non-Reds to help. Atomic Chemist Harold Urey wrote to Judge Kaufman that he "found the testimony of the Rosenbergs more believable than that of the Greenglasses...
Conant's election came as a complete shock to the outside world and as a surprise to many of his associates on the Faculty. He was no "wonder-boy," no "out-spoken leader," no "prominent Harvard professor," no "scion of a patrician Boston family." He was an excellent chemist, so good, in fact, that a friend couldn't understand why he would abandon his post to accept the presidency. "My sense of adventure, I guess," he said...
When it did finally come. Conant's election was a precedent breaking one not because he was a chemist Eliot had been one but because he was a commoner, an unproper Bostonian. As the CRIMSON editorialized. "Conant is a man who has to a large extent risen from the ranks, and who is not a member of that aristocracy represented by the Eliot Lowell binary...