Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect, President Eisenhower last week found just the man to take on the job-vacant since the "wanted" sign was hung out last August-of running the Pentagon's increasingly diverse research, and engineering problems. The man: Dr. Herbert York, 37, one of the nation's top scientists, who has been holding down the job of chief scientist of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ten-month-old overall Pentagon planning group...
Inside Criticism. Standards at Carleton are high; each student must take at least two years of English, science and foreign language. There are no soft majors; in mathematics, chemistry and biology, outstanding students do original research. Yet President Gould is a scientist who quotes from Archibald MacLeish's J.B. without making it appear a stunt, and the humanities at Carleton-particularly English, music and history-are if anything better than the sciences...
...belt, Scientist Van Allen told the American Physical Society at Chicago, seems to be a great doughnut made chiefly of fast-moving electrons and protons circulating around the earth on both sides of its magnetic equator (see diagram). Only the lower parts have been observed with any accuracy. The upper limits are deduced from knowledge of the magnetic field. The Air Force's Pioneer, soaring far past the 1,400-mile level reached by the Explorers, confirmed "tentatively and partially" that the lethal radiation drops off sharply around 7,000 miles...
Russian respect for the physical sciences stems from the influence of a single individual, Doty explained. "He was the great American scientist, Langmuir, who convinced leading Soviet scientists in the Thirties that, if they did basic research well, practical results would follow...
...Howard Stolpp Bunn, 58, executive vice president of Union Carbide Corp., second largest U.S. chemical company, became president, succeeding Morse G. Dial, 63, who moved up to chairman and continues as chief executive officer. A Philadelphia-born, Lehigh-educated ('20) chemist, Bunn is more salesman than scientist, has been executive vice president since 1955, is Dial's probable successor...