Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spotless Basel laboratories of the Swiss drug company Sandoz A.G. a short, trim scientist of 52 performed a strange experiment. Research Director Albert Hofmann meticulously dissolved five milligrams of white crystals in a test tube of water. Then, while tense assistants looked on, he swallowed the potion, lay down on a couch and waited. Within an hour Hofmann began tg report: "I am losing my normal bodily sensations . . . My perception of space and time is changing . . . Your faces appear strange . . ." Finally: "Now, as I close my eyes, I see a wonderful but indistinct kaleidoscopic train of visions. They are vividly...
Wernher von Braun, space and missile scientist Sc.D...
...proper teaching of science is probably the greatest problem before American secondary education. Yet the schools must not only teach more physics and chemistry, but should also face the issue of the isolation of science--make science and scientists seem relevant to the citizen, and indeed make citizenship seem relevant to the scientist and bring him into the community...
Berle deplored the fact that the vast increase in man's power accomplished by the scientist has not been accompanied by any attempts to analyze and understand the manner is which he uses that power, as exemplified by his "politico-social-economic organization...
...more times" in Manhattan. "It's how they do it, and they always do it different." Last week, on Dinah Shore's Chevy Show, Elaine and Mike supplied a sample: a long-distance phone conversation between a self-pitying neurotic mother and her feverishly busy scientist son who is too busy trying to launch a balky U.S. satellite to call or write. (Mike: I feel awful. Elaine: Honey, if I could believe that I'd be the happiest mother in the world...