Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week a Harvard scientist won the Nobel Prize for Physics. While the scientific community applauded the award, the significance of his discoveries, for the most part, escaped the general public. Except for particular areas of research, such as possible cures for cancer, most scientists investigate such arcane aspects of general scientific problems that few laymen can comprehend the significance of their work. But recombinant DNA research, or gene splicing, associated with wild scenarios of two-headed monsters, has brought scientists and laymen together over the past three years to mull over the potential dangers of conducting such research. Scientists...
...Scientists would rather not go slow, however. And the discovery made last spring by a group of scientists in California involving a new gene for producing insulin angered a group of Harvard scientists who were working on the same project but who lacked the facilities to perform similar experiments, illustrating the competitive nature of the field. Scientists in the Harvard laboratories uttered bitter sentences when asked for a response to the California discovery. "The only reason we couldn't get those results was because we didn't have a P-3 facility to clone the gene," one scientist said, adding...
Ebert offered examples of the varied directions of his own medical career. In the '40s he worked with Dr, Paul Flory, the scientist who won a Nobel prize for his work on penicillin. Ebert added that after World War II, he was stationed as a medical officer with the troops occupying Nagasaki, Japan after the atomic bomb was dropped there. "I learned first-hand of the horrors of war," he said...
While Daniel Tosteson the dean tries to get a grip on the school he heads as well as the affiliated hospitals, Tosteson the scientist is trying to keep a hand in scientific research. He is an authority on biological membranes, and although he now has little time to spend in the lab he directs a research team that includes his wife, Magdalena T. Tosteson. Studying red blood cell membranes, the group is exploring possible links between manic depressive disorders and anomalies in individuals' red cell membranes...
John Hult, a former Rand Corp. scientist who heads his own firm, has a similar idea. He would like to wrap an Antarctic berg, mummy-fashion, in thick plastic and haul it to Southern California. Hult, who says he could do the job for a mere $30 million, calculates that he would lose only 5% of the berg's mass during the year-long trip. He would make up some of his immense costs by bottling a portion of the iceberg water in small flasks and then selling them as souvenirs for tourists. Says he: "The American public would...