Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward M. Purcell, Donner Professor of Science, will lecture on "The Scientist as an Engineer" tonight in Quincy House at 8 p.m., in the series "Conference on Careers...
...head the Pentagon's missile-making Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy announced last week that he had secured the services of a scientist who is also a proven industrial manager: Mathematical Physicist Charles Louis Critchfield, 49, Ohio-born research director of California's Atlas-building Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. McElroy and retiring ARPA Director Roy Johnson could not talk Critchfield, father of four, into taking the job until they offered to hire him as a WOC (without compensation), pay his expenses ($15 a day), and let him continue to draw his Convair salary...
...intentions. The author of Sunrise at Campobello is writing in protest: he is one of the people who, aware of the danger of strontium 90 in the air, would ban further nuclear test explosions. Playwright Schary's central figure, Dr. Aaron Cornish (Kenneth MacKenna) is a famous atomic scientist stricken, very possibly because of his nuclear activities, with acute leukemia. In any case, after self-searching, he determines to spend what months remain to him urging an end to nuclear-bomb tests...
During the last three years, Russian official treatment of visitors has eased. There are still a few instances of baggage being searched secretly, and one U.S. scientist had his tape recorder put out of action. But Russian scientists no longer huddle in groups when talking to foreigners, and they are usually free of political watchdogs posing as interpreters...
...there is a psychological factor. Most Russians are well aware that they are far behind the West in most areas. But the Luniks have demonstrated that in science, Russia can not only compete, but in at least one area is clearly ahead. U.S. scientist visitors get the impression that all of Russia's huge resources will be directed toward expanding that lead to cover the whole field of science...