Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blackboard. Most 128 companies stress their academic bent. Their competitive advantage is sheer brainpower-a blackboard, chalk and talent snatched from all across the U.S. They attract many corporation scientists who want to do advance research at local universities-and then they jealously guard these recruits. Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna." At the same time, Route 128 companies draw as part-time consultants the fulltime professors and graduate students who want to put their ideas into action in industry (and to reap its rewards...
Controlled Schizoid. For 2½ years he worked in the U.S. (partly at Los Alamos), returned to Britain in 1946 to be head of the theoretical physics department at the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, was rated as the No. 3 atomic scientist in Britain. Then in 1950 British intelligence belatedly closed in. After a brilliantly conducted interrogation that played on his intellectual vanity. Traitor Fuchs seemed relieved to tell...
...Columbia's Dickinson W. Richards, 1956 prizewinner for his work in cardiology: "Every scientist suffers when there is any restriction, at any level, to the free exchange of knowledge. Except insofar as restrictions are required by the exigencies of national defense, we believe that there should be no restrictions." ¶The Rockefeller Institute's Fritz Lipmann (1953 prize-discoverer of coenzyme A) cited a research group whose classified work in a fast-moving field became obsolete before it was permitted to be published. "Such instances damage the morale of the scientific worker." ¶Harvard's Percy...
...orbit have spun a dozen graduate-launched electronics companies (e.g., Raytheon) in the golden brain center of surrounding Cambridge. It attracts more foreign professors (198 last year) and has a higher proportion of foreign students (12.4%) than any other U.S. institution. Above all, M.I.T. has led in broadening scientists by trying to ground them as thoroughly in the liberal arts as in the arts of technology. For such achievements, Julius Stratton can claim major credit. No narrow specialist-he left Cambridge in 1923 to study French literature at the universities of Grenoble and Toulouse, still refreshes himself by reading French...
James A. Van Allen, physicist, space scientist........................................... Sc.D...