Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retired in 1952. A working, organization Democrat, Morgan summed up his view of the Oppenheimer case: "This is not small peanuts. It is bigger than Dr. Oppenheimer, and it is bigger than the Eisenhower Administration . . . The question is whether you are going to have one security system for the scientist who built a bomb and another for the chauffeur who drives a Congressman around Washington...
...suggested that Oppenheimer's security clearance be restored, is professor emeritus of chemistry at Loyola University of Chicago. A product of a Pennsylvania farm, Evans has found himself in difficult positions all his life (from trapping skunks as a boy to testing explosives as a soldier and a scientist). Recognized as a brilliant teacher and a foremost U.S. expert on explosives, Evans has retired twice, and is still working. In 1946 he retired as head of Northwestern University's chemistry department. Then, in 1947, at his country home near Lancaster, Pa., he received a wire asking...
...should express our considered view that, because the loyalty or security risk status of a scientist or any other intellectual may be brought into question, scientists and intellectuals are ill-advised to assert that a reasonable and sane inquiry constitutes an attack upon scientists and intellectuals generally. This board would deplore deeply any notion that scientists are under attack in this country and that prudent study of any individual's conduct and character within the necessary demands of the national security could be either in fact or in appearance a reflection of anti-intellectualism...
Citation: "World famous political scientist, anthropologist and educator; keen scholar . . . loyal representative of this nation as principal director, department of trusteeship, the United Nations . . . People are his chief concern, and nations are his classroom...
...were men. None mentioned a woman scientist under 40 as being his equal in ability...