Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masterful summary of the Oppenheimer case by TIME leaves this question unanswered: What should be done with this brilliant scientist if the AEC concurs in the decision by its special board? For the fact remains that Dr. Oppenheimer is a walking repository of highly classified security information. Should we put him in a file marked "extra special top secret?" Or shall we place his brain in a box . . . and surround it by FBI guards night...
...winter of 1942-43, Haakon Chevalier came to our home. It was, I believe, for dinner, but possibly for a drink. When I went out into the pantry, Chevalier followed me or came with me to help me. He said: "I saw George Eltenton [a Russian-trained scientist] recently." [He said that] Eltenton had told him that he had a method ... of getting technical information to Soviet scientists. He didn't describe the means. I thought I said, "But that is treason." I'm not sure. I said anyway something, "This is a terrible thing to do." Chevalier...
...find employment, for the taint of subversion is upon them despite the letter, which did not arrive until long after the case had left the public eye. Even Rutman's wife, a research assistant at the school, has been fired. Though there was no question of her loyalty, the scientist under whom she was working received a telephone call from the Public Health Service informing him that his Government funds would be suspended unless Mrs. Rutman were fired. Promptly...
...strengths and weaknesses of the nation's enemies. Symbols of this policy, begun long before World War II, are institutions such as Harvard's Russian Research Center, which is supplying the ideas for the psychological counter-offensive against the U.S.S.R. Even more extensive is the use of the natural scientist; as war grows more destructive, the scientist has increasingly assumed a policy-making role. In domestic affairs, it is significant that the Supreme Court, in outlawing segregation last month, based its opinion not on judicial precedent, but on the findings of scores of social scientists...
...more than cliches is evidence of this split status. The pressure is to conform, but it is only too plain that a Russian Research Center report slanted to fit the views of a particular political party is more than worthless-it becomes a positive danger. And when a natural scientist finds that his fitness is estimated by the degree of enthusiasm he shows for a project, the national interest will suffer from the enforced conformity of his fellow scientists in the future. In its more extreme form, this pressure shows itself in book burning, loyalty oaths, committee investigations, faculty firings...