Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former President's visit here will conclude a two-week stay in the United States. He said yesterday that he returned primarily to testify before Congressional committees, but presumably he also appeared at the loyalty hearing of atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...probably through Spanish relief efforts that I met Dr. Thomas Addis ... a distinguished medical scientist who became a friend. Addis asked me ... to contribute through him to the Spanish cause. He made it clear that this money, unlike that which went to the relief organizations, would go straight to the fighting effort and that it would go through Communist channels. I did so contribute ... I did not then regard the Communists as dangerous, and some of their declared objectives seemed to me desirable...
...even this fraternity was not proof against evil and the suspicion of evil. Last week a curious crack in the fraternity of liberal scientists came to light with the publication of an attack upon Oppenheimer made in 1949 by Dr. Edward U. Condon, then head of the National Bureau of Standards. Condon himself was attacked as a security risk and is revered as a martyr by those who consider all security investigations of scientists as "witch hunts." On June 7, 1949, Oppenheimer testified at a secret session of the House Un-American Activities Committee investigating Dr. Bernard Peters, a fellow...
...wish to make public my profound regret that anything said in that context should have been so misconstrued and abused that it would damage Dr. Peters and threaten his distinguished future career as a scientist...
Condon's letter, of course, proved nothing against Oppenheimer's loyalty or integrity. But it did prove that McCarthy has no monopoly of smearing, and that one liberal scientist could impute the basest motives to another member of the great international fraternity...