Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard no one would ever dream of allowing a natural scientist to pass judgement on the works of a sociologist," Reischauer said...
Test Center. This dream city is the brainchild of freewheeling Scientist Athelstan Spilhaus, an oceanographer, physicist and meteorologist. In the eight years since he first got the idea, MXC has drawn support from Twin Cities business leaders, the federal and state governments, and top thinkers like R. Buckminster Fuller, Economist Walter Heller and Urbanologist Harvey Perloff. Their combined efforts are aimed at starting construction...
...actual delivery of knowledge." When no immediate payoff can be promised, there have been cutbacks even in areas that are politically acceptable. Explaining the big reduction in the $27 million budget of the Department of the Interior's Office of Saline Water, for instance, one skeptical scientist says: "About all they've discovered is that distilled water will be free of salt...
...major trouble with the Administration's attitude is that it tends to ignore a harsh reality of modern science: the days are long past when a dedicated scientist like Michael Faraday or the young Thomas Edison, toiling alone or with a few associates in a simple lab, could hope to produce a fundamental breakthrough. Now most major discoveries require teams of highly trained researchers and such expensive equipment as electron microscopes, high-speed computers, atom smashers or radio telescopes In other words, without Government funds, pure science is bound to wither...
Samuel Beer, Eaton Professor of Government, was the only white social scientist to deliver prepared remarks in favor of the Kilson amendment. Beer's endorsement was brief and qualified. He emphasized that he supported the Kilson position, but that he was not an expert Afro-American scholar. Kilson and Patterson needed a white social scientist with credentials in Afro-American Studies to speak for joint concentrations with enthusiasm and conviction. The ideal person would have been H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, who guided the Faculty Council resolution skillfully through the Faculty. But Hughes took...