Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swarthmore, Albert Einstein marched in the procession bareheaded, his great white mane gleaming in the sun. Reading without emotion from a six-page manuscript, Scientist Einstein told Swarthmore's graduates that failure of the modern world to develop a new morality to replace the declining influence of religion had resulted in "a serious weakening of moral thought and sentiment," in "the barbarization of political ways." The surrender of some European nations to "primitive animal instincts," said he, "if persisted in, will destroy civilization, religion and morality...
Some years ago a scientist walked out into a Baltimore park to take a picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...
...spectators broke and scattered. Undoubtedly, the twinkling-eyed scientist would have been arrested as police arrived, had he not identified himself as Professor Robert Williams Wood, eminent physicist of Johns Hopkins University...
...humor. Just off the presses were two books-Methods of Tissue Culture by Raymond C. Parker-and Culture of Organs by Alexis Carrel and Charles A. Lindberghf-which formally presented to medicine the sum of Nobel Laureate Carrel's 40 years in science. More than any other man, Scientist Carrel has made it possible to study tissue and organs outside of their organisms, but alive. Just as Audubon's first scientific observations of living birds immeasurably advanced ornithology beyond the study of lifeless stuffed specimens, this new technique in physiology leaves classical anatomy and dissection far behind...
...velocity of electrons) when he was 26; Dirac mathematically deduced the existence of the positive electron when he was 28. Once a theorist has constructed a powerful new theory, he is likely to become fond of it and spend much energy polishing and protecting it. To more than one scientist who contemplated last week's apparently fruitless meeting in Warsaw, it seemed likely that when theory emerges from its present slough, young minds with fresh imaginations will show...