Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California. It reported that "Scientist X" had gone to Nelson's home one night in March 1943, had read to Nelson a "complicated formula" which Nelson copied down. Several days later, Nelson got in touch with the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, met Vice Consul Peter Ivanov on the grounds of St. Francis Hospital. There, said the report, "Nelson transferred something to Ivanov ... If the matter transferred included the formula that Scientist X had given Nelson-and the inference is irresistible that it did-it was a formula of importance in the development of the atom bomb...
Back to Galileo. Western scientists are outraged by this Soviet attack upon scientific principle. It reminds them of Galileo, who was "disciplined" for asserting that the earth moves around the sun. They do not see how Haldane, who has enjoyed wide respect as a biologist and geneticist, can continue to toe the party line and remain a scientist...
...highly specialized animal ... is practically in equilibrium with all phases of his environment... Is something similar, perhaps, happening to the scientist? Is the specialist, in the confines of his narrow discipline, failing to accept the challenge of unfamiliar territory, to risk the uncertainties and the tensions of coupling and interconnecting the many aspects of science? ... If this is so, he is no longer a true scientist...
...possibilities. "Serious consideration," he says, "is being given to the development of a satellite missile which will continuously orbit around the earth, at a distance of, say, 1,000 kilometers (620 miles)." Circling endlessly, far above the drag of the atmosphere, its instruments could radio data for generations of scientists to study. Or perhaps some hardy scientist might make a few turns in the belly of this synthetic moon, and then return to earth full of knowledge and glory...
...Awarded annually to the scientist under 35 who has done the best research in enzymes...