Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DuBRIDGE, former president of Caltech: Carl Sagan has an influence on science far beyond the television tube. He is introducing people to the many aspects of science. Frank Press (scientific adviser to Carter) has persuaded the President of the importance of basic research, developed some of the technical aspects of SALT II, and remains an important link in explaining the treaty to the scientific community. Bruce Murray, director of the Jet Propulsion Lab, reflects and influences the objectives and hopes of the entire scientific community...
EDWARD TELLER, scientist: Biologist Norman Borlaug, who with his colleagues developed a strain of wheat that is helping to feed the world. The most important man who brought refugees to this country, from Hungarians to Indochinese, is Leo Cherne, executive director of the Research Institute of America. Dixy Lee Ray, the Governor of Washington, is a politician and a scientist who pulled the Atomic Energy Commission out of a deep mire by reorganizing the agency. She made many enemies, and had no support, but became the Governor of a state...
...than $50 million, slashed budgets, restructured the university's investments and managed to erase the projected $9 million budget deficit he inherited. He is now working to improve the quality of undergraduate education, and, as an example of how the university should concentrate its resources, is strengthening its research and teaching programs in cell biology. Sawhill also likes to pull on an old sweatshirt and jog around the N.Y.U. campus, stopping occasionally to pick up trash...
...nation's most forceful advocates of an often neglected cause: the small liberal arts college. Although he attended the University of Chicago and Harvard, Botstein believes that in an increasingly complex world the traditional college can provide a vital educational function quite different from that of large, research-oriented universities. He has buttressed his argument with an impressive performance. In 1970, at the age of 23, he became one of the youngest college presidents in American history when he took over and briefly revived New Hampshire's failing and nonaccredited Franconia College. At 28, Botstein, the son of two Polish...
...book will realize, Eiseley has come closer than anyone else to solving that mystery and breaking that web. In graceful, occasionally poetic prose, he shows how Darwin, who was initially timid about advancing his theory, was almost beaten into print by Alfred Russel Wallace, a younger, all but unknown researcher. After discussion, the two agreed to announce their theory simultaneously. Eiseley also outlines Darwin's relationship with Charles Lyell, whose research established modern geology and laid the foundation for his colleague's achievements, but who was himself uneasy about the idea of evolution...