Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever really turned the tide of a war, a cheery Scottish scientist named Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt* might claim to be the man. Sir Robert was the principal inventor of radar. The electronic watchdogs developed by him and his fellow "boffins" (secret war scientists) won the Battle of Britain for the outnumbered R.A.F. Sir Robert got a "well done"-the Order of the Bath...
...over 3,000 years, this yarn has been good enough for millions of people.* But in the current issue of American Scientist, Dr. Arthur F. Taggart belittles it to pieces. The Golden Fleece, Dr. Taggart explains, was probably nothing but a detail of Heroic Age mining technique. The early Greeks lined their gold-washing sluices with sheepskins. The gold dust stuck to the natural grease in the wool. The same principle (the selective attraction of oily substances for certain mineral particles) is widely used today in the flotation process of concentrating metallic ores. Jason, then, according to Dr. Taggart...
...solution: abolish all three services, have one defense force more & more dependent on science, "which would show no more regret when it relinquishes an older weapon than a scientist shows when a hypothesis is exploded...
...scientists, who seldom used to worry much about such things, have begun to wonder whether they have the social vision to see beyond their warheads. This week Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the nation's top scientific school, welcomed a man who might do something about that feeling. For the first time in its 81 years, M.I.T. picked as dean of stu dents not a scientist but a minister...
President Conant is known as a scientist and educator all over the World. As chairman of the National Defense Research Council, he played a dominant role in the development of the atomic bomb, which brought World War H to a closs. As President of Harvard and as Chairman of the N. D. R. C., the organization which controlled and promoted most of the scientific progress during...