Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be even higher if many of the men were not teachers in universities, just getting their careers underway. About a dozen men make $10,000 to $15,000. One of these is a staff artist for Cinemanimator Walt Disney-salary, $12,000. The group includes a physical scientist and a physiologist who are university department heads; a 32-year-old aeronautical engineer who is coordinator of research in a $10,000,000 laboratory; also jazz-band players, ghost writers, radio announcers, a fox farmer, a rare-stamp dealer, a cop. Half of Terman's boys entered professions, with...
Harold Spencer Jones, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., is England's Astronomer Royal. A hardheaded, straight-thinking scientist, who refers to writings of Eddington and Jeans as "romance," he is, ex officio, director of Greenwich Observatory and responsible for Greenwich time's astronomical integrity.* The question he has heard most often in his 50-year career is: Does life exist on other worlds? Astronomer Jones set out to assemble the evidence in the case, published his conclusions last week in Life on Other Worlds (Macmillan...
...churchmen everywhere, the meeting was doubly historic: it paved the way for a possible reconciliation of science and religion, separated 80 years ago by the conflict between six-day Creation and the theory of evolution. Never had so many famed scientists of no religious affiliation answered a call to meet for a common purpose with religious leaders. Never had so many famed churchmen held their peace while an outstanding scientist urged them to give up their belief in a personal...
...size of the job ahead was indicated by the variety of viewpoints represented on an executive committee which was set up. That committee includes Chairman Finkelstein, Critic Van Wyck Brooks, Educators Lyman Bryson and Lawrence K. Frank, Biophysicist Caryl P. Haskins, Political Scientist Harold D. Lasswell, Sociologist Robert M. Maclver, Physicist Robert J. Havighurst, Philosopher Filmer S. C. Northrop, Catholic Theologians Gerald B. Phelan and Gerald G. Walsh, Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Dean Luther A. Weigle of the Yale Divinity School. There was small hope that such men of good will could do the job before them in time...
Last week the sullen heralds of total war chattered in British skies, but many a British scientist, true to a long and stanch tradition, went calmly on with his researches in "pure" or fundamental science.* One of the purest of pure sciences is the approach to absolute zero, the nadir of cold. Absolute zero is the point at which all random motions of material particles, due to heat energy, are completely stilled. It is calculated at 273.13° below zero on the centigrade scale, and it can be written as simply 0°K., meaning zero on the Kelvin...