Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every 100 U. S. citizens who have heard of Thomas Alva Edison, it would be hard to find one who has heard of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903). Some years ago, however, a gathering of British scientists spouting learned chitchat in a cafe voted Gibbs no less than the greatest U. S. scientist ever...
When Massachusetts educators and scientists meet Sunday night in Sanders Theatre to emphasize "the American legacy of intellectual freedom," it will not only be part of a nation-wide demonstration but the direct result of an article written several months ago by a German scientist which contrasted a "pragmatic Aryan physics" with a "Jewish physics, which is theoretical and dogmatic...
...Earnest Albert Hooton believes that human behavior, though it may be influenced by environment, has a fundamental basis in organic constitution, that is, in hereditary endowment. An affable and brilliant scientist who heads Harvard's world-famed Department of Anthropology, Dr. Hooton points out that a chimpanzee and a man behave differently not because their environments are different but because they are born with different anatomical equipment...
Delegates wore linen suits, shorts, sandals and open shirts to a garden party at Parliament House-which reporters called the "most informal" in Australian history-but sweat ran down their faces. When a cooling shower fell on the party, the change was too much for Scientist Ernest Clayton Andrews, past president of the congress. He was found unconscious in a rain puddle, hospitalized...
...only hobby nowadays is the propagation of biologic truth-which, says Oscar Riddle, provides man with his "just hope for grandeur and power, and happiness." No cloistered, secretive scientist, he constantly sallies forth to preach the necessity of wider understanding of biological research...