Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Nikola Tesla was a spectacular eccentric scientist and showman. Sure that his name will outlive Thomas Edison's, Tesla's admirers hold that he and Michael Faraday were the greatest electrical discoverers of modern times. Last week one admirer, who according to the inventor himself understood him "better than any man alive," published the first Tesla biography-Prodigal Genius (Ives Washburn; $3.75). The author: John J. O'Neill, science editor of the New York Herald Tribune...
Tesla, who considered Edison a mere inventor, not a scientist, quit in 1885 when Edison refused to pay $50,000 Tesla thought he had been promised for his work. In 1912 Tesla refused the Nobel prize because it was to be shared with Edison. Only after long argument was Tesla prevailed upon to accept the Edison Medal for his achievements...
...Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, 35, 20th of his line, who succeeded to the title as a child after his father's death in World War I. A man of many parts (Australian sheep rancher, sailor before the mast, rare-books collector, scientist), he became one of Britain's leading bomb-disposal experts, was blown to pieces (with seven of his staff) by a bomb three years...
With the liberation Joliot assumed charge of the reorganization of French scientific research. His scientist wife, daughter of Madame Curie, shrugs off the dangerous years. Says she: "They [the Nazis] didn't worry me much. They seemed to mix me up with my sister [famed French WAC officer, Eve Curie] and looked somewhat puzzled when they met me, but I never helped them to work out the family relationship...
Some economists have regarded the steady expansion of the service industries as a parasitic growth. Social Scientist Grattan rebuts the theory that service industries create no new wealth as "antiquated nonsense." To Grattan, who realizes that technological improvements tend steadily to reduce factory work toward button-pushing by fewer & fewer workers, a higher standard of living means many more services, and thus more opportunity for employment outside factories...