Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounds. Dr. John Nicolaides, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a former NASA official, also became a believer after Kline sailed a model of his new glider practically the length of Notre Dame's practice football field. In subsequent wind-tunnel tests, the scientist confirmed what Kline already believed: that his wing was a true breakthrough in aerodynamic design, one that greatly resists stalling. Exactly why that is so remains a mystery...
Stoler and Good, it turned out, have more in common than their interest in immunology. The scientist, a onetime country boy, and the reporter, an incurable morning jogger, are both early risers. Their initial meeting was over lunch, but they subsequently had most of their discussions in Good's office from...
Symbols. For a "hard" scientist, Bellah's work made an easy target. He does not rely on mathematical models or statistical samples. He is a comparative and historical sociologist who "makes sense of other people's data." His interest in religion, in fact, may be one reason he is held in low esteem by some scientists. As Institute Physicist Freeman Dyson notes: "There are a lot of scientists who consider religion as a childhood disease." Logician Morton White dismissed Bellah's work as "pedestrian and pretentious." Mathematician André Weil called him "not of the intellectual...
...switch is based on a phenomenon first predicted in 1962 by a British scientist named Brian Josephson, who was only 22 at the time. While studying superconductivity,* the Cambridge graduate student determined mathematically that pairs of electrons would "tunnel" through material that is normally an electrical insulator if it is thin enough and sandwiched between two superconductors. If the flow of electrons through the insulator were kept below a certain critical value, he found, there would be no difference in voltage from one side of the insulator to the other. (At normal temperatures, an electric current never flows unless there...
...subject has been explored by talk shows and documentaries for years, and even a few regular series have gingerly touched on it. CBS's Medical Center once featured a scientist discriminated against because of his sexual tendencies, and ABC's Room 222 portrayed a high school boy accused of being gay. But the real breakthrough probably was made, as in so many other areas, by All in the Family. Last season Archie Bunker discovered that one of his buddies at Kelsey's Bar, a tough ex-football star, was "one of those...