Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deutsche Bank of Berlin (1893-1914) whose subscription to one-fourth of a $100,000,000 gold loan to the U. S. Treasury helped avert panic in 1896. A backer of Edison Electric Light Co., he organized the International Niagara Commission which was headed by Lord Kelvin, famed British scientist. As president (1890-99) of Cataract Construction Co. he led the development of power at Niagara Falls; for this he was given the John Fritz Gold Medal in 1926. Philanthropist, art patron, he enjoyed listing his membership in scores of educational, artistic and charitable organizations...
...James Jeans speaking in Sanders Theatre last night presented the physicist's point of view regarding the outcome of the universe. The English scientist has concluded, without the unanimous approval of his fellow physicists, that matter continuously passing into pure radiation will eventually leave the cosmos devoid of substance in its tangible form...
...days of Democritus and Lucretius, a field fertile to the romantic imagination, is more rational in its severity and yet more romantic in its doctrine and possibility than ever before. Philosophy, which Professor Whitehead has called the architectural plan, has been hard pressed during the last century. The scientists seem to be building and destroying before the architect has drawn a line, instead of as previously, the architects drawing and destroying plans before the scientist has lifted an unknown into the position of a conscious reality...
...answer to the question is better left to the scientist than to the philosopher. And yet within the last few years, leading scientists have been professing tremendous humility; in honest doubt of meaning of their discoveries, they are turning to the philosopher and the poet in search of a meaning. Having pierced dark matter and widened into the realms of insubstantial light, there is an urgency for meaning. To that point all searchers return. And one is inclined to think that it will be the philosopher or the poet who does provide a meaning. For man has never been satisfied...
...James, besides being an eminent scientist, is a well-known author of theoretical as well as popular books on scientific subjects...