Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this was born from the curiosity of one small boy and the response of his father, William Slaton Jr., 36, a Negro chemist in the Rexall Drug Laboratories. A self-made scientist, Slaton knows the value of education. Too broke for fulltime college, he worked for years at odd jobs from welding to clerking before graduating at last, in 1951, from the University of Southern California...
Wood had attacked the tendency of pre medical students to slight science courses, stating that doctors must acquire much of their scientific background as undergraduates. Wood had commented, "One can no longer be a first-rate doctor without beinng a first-rate scientist...
...plan is losing some of its glamour. One Oxford don argues that "there can be no doubt that a Marshall Scholarship is better than a Rhodes. I don't say the boys are of better caliber; the scholarship itself is better attuned to the 20th century. Today a scientist might well want to avoid Oxford...
...past. Faced with the touchy problem of whether JPL could build a 447-lb. Mariner, he dug into his work with the quiet devotion that is much more characteristic of him than his loud Explorer forays into Washington officialdom. He held endless meetings, consulted everybody worth a hearing. One scientist who heard that a pet instrument would have to be abandoned on the newer, smaller satellite got so emotional that he was almost fired to keep the peace. Pickering never lost his composure. "I had to establish," he says in measured tones, "that the project could get the necessary support...
Frederick the Second-Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Germans, King of Sicily, scholar, scientist, quarreler with Popes, prodigious lecher, successful Crusader, political innovator-is a blazing figure in a period in history (the first half of the 13th century) that the casual student too often slides by. The attention is caught briefly, perhaps, by Frederick's nickname, Stupor Mundi (wonder of the world), and by accounts that his scientific curiosity led him to experiment with live servants. But ahead, amplified by history's hindsound, are the first horn calls of the Renaissance. The temptation is to leave...