Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hahn had been repeating experiments performed by a onetime colleague, Lise Meitner, a Jewish woman scientist who had fled from Hitler's Reich to Copenhagen. Meitner's own experiments had puzzled her-but when she saw Hahn's report she guessed that the huge uranium atom had been broken into two nearly equal fragments...
...happened in 1939 in the laboratory of a German scientist, Otto Hahn of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin...
...much longer will man survive? Many astrophysicists give man a few billion years more, but believe that his days are numbered as the earth grows cooler. Last week these orthodox views were openly disputed by London's famed Biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Writing in the American Scientist, Haldane advanced a "new theory of the past." Haldane's theory rests on a hypothesis of relativity developed in the '30s by British Cosmologist E. A. Milne. (Most of Milne's reasoning is far too deep for anyone but astrophysicists - and Professor Haldane.) Milne suggested that time, like...
...thinking, was anybody's guess for the moment. But the science faculties, which include Hutchins' severest critics, saw one hopeful sign in the shuffle: up to succeed Colwell came 53-year-old Dr. R. G. Gustavson, ex-president of the University of Colorado, the first scientist to get a top administrative job since Hutchins appeared on the Chicago scene...
Science & the State. One great question troubling the visiting scientists was: can science be free when it is state-controlled? Academician A. F. Joffe undertook to lay their doubts at rest. Said he: "Can scientific research be planned? There are people who claim that fulfillment of any plan is incompatible with the private initiative of a scientist, and that science, aiming at solution of practical problems in industry, agriculture, transport or defense, delays treatment of deeply theoretical problems which promise nothing in the way of practical results in the immediate future. Yet the experience of science in the Soviet Union...