Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kistiakowsky, along with another scientist at Los Alamos, was in charge of the final assembly of the bomb before the test. He and Bainbridge were the last men to inspect the weapon before it was detonated...
...news struck the capital like a thunderbolt. It marked the first time that the loyalty of a U. S. scientist of Oppenheimer's imposing stature had been revealed under investigation. From the Boston Herald of April...
...years ago James B. Conant found himself criticized severely for his lack of faith in the economic potentialities of unclear energy. It was then held in congressional circles that a scientist so gloomy as to envisage the abandonment of all unclear power station experiments by 1970, was probably unfit to help shape the policies...
...Administration has more damning material than has been published to date. Barring that, however, the indictment against Oppenheimer in calmer times would have stirred nothing but contempt for the small minds which put it together with such solemn urgency. Its main charge is based on an opinion the scientist expressed at a meeting of the AEC's Advisory Board in 1950. At that point he opposed the plan to develop the Hydrogen bomb, partly for technical and strategic reasons which apparently retain much force, and partly on grounds of morality. After Truman's decision on the matter, Oppenheimer continued...
This statement, from General Education in a Free Society, forms the cornerstone of the Natural Science program at Harvard. The goal of the program, from its very inception was to give the layman some knowledge of what science is and how the scientist grapples with the problems that challenge him. For this purpose ordinary elementary science courses are totally inadequate. Designed for the science concentrator who gains insight into the problems and philosophy of science only in advanced courses, they dogmatically state a vast number of facts, all necessary for further advancement, but worth little to the layman who will...