Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientist has a responsibility to make sure that society considers the larger implications of policy decisions when they may affect the course of history, J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 told a Sanders Theatre audience in the seventh of the William James Lectures yesterday afternoon...
...Carolyn Conn, 30, faced Judge Harry G. Hershenson in Chicago because her ex-husband complained that she would not allow Salk vaccination of their daughter Alyson, 7. Mrs. Conn protested that it was dangerous and against her religious beliefs as a Christian Scientist. Said the judge: "I fail to see where a religious issue is involved." He set a precedent by ordering Alyson to be taken to a doctor and vaccinated...
...frontiers, in many cases along the lines sketched out by the great men of its early days. Endocrinologist George W. Thorn and colleagues are still exploring the adrenals, gradually outlining the role of a recently discovered and potent but little-understood hormone, aldosterone. Dr. Harken is working with famed Scientist Vannevar Bush on plastic valves which may actually replace the aortic valve in patients with some kinds of heart damage...
Oppenheimer pointed out that quantum theory leads the scientist to the maximum possible determination of a given effect, but not the only determination. He emphasized that once a scientist had decided on what route he would take to this "maximum determination," other routes were necessarily excluded in that particular experiment...
...scientist examines the world through new instruments and methods, and thus is a great agent both in creating and ordering. The historian, on the other hand, is concerned mainly with ordering man's experience, with identifying things that are worth discussing, and with sorting out and categorizing tangible, significant events...