Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should have started shouting back in 1947," says Radio Astronomer Charles Seeger. "But we didn't know then what we had hold of." Anxious to make up for this omission, the University of California scientist was in Washington last week shouting as loud as an amateur lobbyist can, crying for control of a tiny band of frequencies (608-614 megacycles) on the electromagnetic spectrum. Commercial-television men call that band Channel 37, and they long to fill it. Radio astronomers want it kept clear of all interference so that they can listen in peace to the whispering radio waves...
Errors in applying mathematical concepts to problems in the sciences are as common as parietal misadventures--and potentially no less dipterous. Only examing the practical consequences of various models can the scientist ultimately select the most satisfactory one. Similarly, in defending the pursuit of mathematics against the charge that it is a "frill," or pay-chosis-inducing, or, for some other reason, unsuitable for study, it champions must marshal evidence that conforms to pragmatic conceptions of proof...
When William James entered Harvard, he had made up his mind to become a scientist. After two years as an undergraduate, he convinced himself that he was best suited not for science in any strict sense, but rather for the broad scientific concerns of medicine. Doubts continued to assail him, however, during his first year and a half in the Medical School...
...people to be interested in moon rockets and such stuff-there at Alabama's Huntsville space center was former first magnitude Film Star Gloria Swanson, 6.4, hearing all about other worlds from a man she had long admired, Rocket Scientist Dr. Wernher von Broun, 51. "I felt self-conscious taking his time," said Gloria. "If you're a woman, people think you have feathers in your head, especially if you're from Hollywood. But I poked around asking what's this, how does that work, what's that little green thing? It was fascinating...
...prickly problems. While graduate training blossoms, undergraduate education suffers. Top professors teach less and less, giving their prime loyalty more and more to some Government agency, which "becomes the new alma mater." Academe's "eternal class struggles" have worsened: today's "affluent professor'' is the scientist who gets more money and faster promotions leaving humanists behind and bitter. The regular faculty is being jostled by the "un-faculty"-nontenure researchers who do not belong to the faculty senate, but whose projects profoundly affect university planning and financing. "Excessive amounts of expensive equipment have at times been...