Word: scientist
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...relation of a scientist's work to any human needs beyond the desire to be accepted by the scientific community is perhaps the least explored area in the field. It is a very real problem. A concerted effort to bring the scientific understanding home to a society so largely shaped by the products of that understanding is too valuable to be shunted aside as secondary to research...
...scientist could have more imposing credentials: Nobel laureate in chemistry, co-discoverer of plutonium and eight other synthetic elements, former chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley and longtime associate director of its famed Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. Yet Glenn Seaborg is currently the center of a bitter controversy that has sharply divided the nation's largest and most powerful private scientific organization. At issue is whether the three-term chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission should also serve as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which has 130,000 members. If a scientist...
Still, the price of these boons is exorbitant. No other American institution respects seniority the way Congress does. "Of all the institutional failings of American Government," says Political Scientist James MacGregor Burns, "the seniority system of Congress is by far the most serious...
...heating. The would-be cheese cook who achieves Silly Putty instead of a creamy liquid is told among other things to avoid several common varieties and to buy others, notably Cheddar, only when aged. The section on the mysterious ways of chocolate might have been written by a scientist. In fact, after finishing Field, the reader may feel more like a chemist than an alchemist, but the results are reliable, as they are intended...
Wilson is the second scientist-administrator being considered from the Batavia Accelerator and his presence on the list can be largely attributed to the newest Cooperation member. Charles Slichter, himself a physicist at the University of Illinois...