Word: researchers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Russian respect for the physical sciences stems from the influence of a single individual, Doty explained. "He was the great American scientist, Langmuir, who convinced leading Soviet scientists in the Thirties that, if they did basic research well, practical results would follow...
Asked whether Soviet scientists select their own research problems, Doty remarked that "people as high as professor can choose their own work maybe half the time, depending on the director of their scientific institutes...
...than $1 billion in Federal grants over a four year period. Its half dozen main programs are designed to indentify, and help establish, each student's abilities; to improve instruction in science, mathematics, and languages; to provide more college teachers, more loans for college students, and to stimulate educational research...
...Texas zoo had a surplus stock of dog-faced baboons-they had been bred in the zoo for 20 years, and the pack had had only two "old men" to sire all the offspring. This line breeding gave them a start toward genetic purity-a most desirable quality in research animals...
...Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation are the principal sponsors of this sort of space research. For weeks two Navy scientists have been standing by in South Dakota, waiting for a break in the weather to soar aloft in a "Strato-lab" balloon carrying a 16-in. Schmidt telescope. Target of the flight will be Mars, now unusually close to the earth. When Mars is photographed by surface telescopes, the fine detail on its surface is blurred by turbulence in the atmosphere. There should be little or no turbulence above the 16-mile (80,000-ft.) level...