Word: nonscientist
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...college heads sent Professor Cole packing off to Maine to write a text on physics and the modern world, precisely because he was an amateur in the subject. They guessed rightly that the freshmen would understand it better if a nonscientist wrote it. Professor Cole compressed a summer's reading into some 100 pages, which the Physics Department promptly approved; he thought the assignment "a lot of fun." He is the kind of man who, when he accepted a post as visiting lecturer at Yale, spent the time commuting from Amherst teaching himself Spanish...