Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stinging attack against the Defense Department's "arbitrary," "rigid" and "dangerous" ruling that Army missiles must be limited to 200 miles ground to ground and 100 miles ground to air (TIME, Dec. 10). Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker decorated the Redstone Arsenal's most famous missile scientist, ex-German Missileman Wernher von Braun, boosted the Army's claim that its 1,500-mile missile Jupiter is superior to the rival Air Force Thor and is in fact "the most advanced guided missile yet produced in the free world...
...also honored a famed scientist last week: Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, one of the fathers of atomic fission. President Eisenhower went to Washington's National Academy of Sciences to address the meeting as Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award, a gold medal and a $75,000 tax-free "honorarium" put up by the Ford Motor...
...called Bohr "a scientist and a great human being who exemplifies principles the world sorely needs-the spirit of friendly scientific inquiry, and the peaceful use of the atom for the satisfaction of human needs." Replied Bohr: "The rapid advance of science and technology in our age, which involves such bright promises and grave dangers, presents civilization with a most serious challenge. To meet this challenge . . . the road is indicated by that worldwide cooperation which has manifested itself through the ages in the development of science...
...Against Common Sense." In his 72 years Niels Bohr has probably received more awards, prizes, decorations, honorary degrees and memberships than any other living scientist. In Denmark he is a Knight of the Elephant, close below the royal family in official social precedence. Although past the age for pioneering research, he is still a powerful influence among his scientist colleagues...
Observatory officials were non-committal on the stage of alertness of Moonwatch teams around the country. Leon Campbell, Jr., director of the observation program, commented only that "Moonwatch teams are on the alert all the time, naturally." Another scientist revealed that the one operative satellite-tracking camera had been disassembled in Pasadena Friday and would arrive in New Mexico today...