Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiftyish Gaus looks out on the panorama of men living with one another through deep brown eyes backed by a mind that is a compound of the soft-boiled romantic and the methodical social scientist. One moment his fancy turns to roaming Chicago's like front and standing back to scan story-packed skyline. The next he is advising a governmental agency on nuances of procedural policy. Here lies perhaps the key portion of his career. In his years at Madison he guided the Wisconsin Executive Council through its pioneer efforts to relieve the excessive burden on the legislature...
Died. Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, 64, topnotch French scientist, philosopher; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Paris-born Scientist-Author du Noüy was at one time a member of the Rockefeller Institute, head of biophysics at the Pasteur Institute, a director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne. As a young officer in the French Army, he met Biologist Alexis Carrel (Man, the Unknown), under whose influence he became deeply interested in biophysics. In 1937, he attracted international attention with his book Biological Time ("Everything occurs as if sidereal time flowed four times faster for a man of 50 than for a child...
...wrote the current bestseller, Human Destiny (TIME, Feb. 24). In it he assembled impressive scientific and mathematical data to demonstrate that life could not have been the result of a chance combination of elements. Life, he said, must have been created for some long-range purpose. This purposiveness Scientist du Noüy called "telefinality." Mankind-the highest and most complex life-form of all-must, he believed, go on developing in the direction of spirituality, as exemplified by Christ...
...scientist is a citizen who has added responsibility because of his specialized training," Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, declared last night in explaining the raison d'etre of the newly formed Students Association for Natural and Social Sciences...