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...Ehrlich (Stanford), Kenneth E. F. Watt (University of California at Davis), and a few others. In terms of public recognition, perhaps the outstanding figure in the field is Barry Commoner of Washington University in St. Louis (see box, page 58), who has probably done more than any other U.S. scientist to speak out and awaken a sense of urgency about the declining quality of life. Last week he addressed 10,000 people at Northwestern University, where young activists staged the first of a series of major environmental teach-ins that will climax in a nationwide teach-in on April...
...professor with a class of millions-most of them real students, all of them deeply concerned about man's war against nature. At 52, the impatient microbiologist from Washington University in St. Louis has become the uncommon spokesman for the common man. He personifies the New Scientist-concerned, authoritative and worldly, an iconoclast who refuses to remain sheltered in the ivory laboratory. Air Pollution Expert Lewis Green calls Commoner a "Paul Revere waking the country to environmental dangers." Commoner's students agree...
...ability of the individual scientist to control his own research...
...sequence, Holton says, textbook writers (himself included) have nurtured what he calls the "experimenticist fallacy": the false notion that theory always flows directly from experiment. In the process, he says, they do not fully recognize the extraordinary intellectual daring of Einstein's equations, and also ignore the great scientist's own explanation of their origin: "There is no logical way to the discovery of these elementary laws. There is only the way of intuition...
Using data from the Prairie View cameras, Richard McCrosky, a lecturer in Astronomy and the scientist in charge of the meteor project, predicted that the meteorite would land in a one-mile-square area near Lost City...