Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortunate for the U.S. Bureau of Standards that its distinguished scientist was not murdered before he was born...
...both of his "hands" for writing, swimming, smoking and playing golf. At his job he deftly manipulated the tricky analytic balance, the chemist's scale. At the time of his death, Wells had become a chief chemist and consultant for the bureau, is remembered as a "useful contributing scientist...
...company has grown, its business approach has remained scientifically nonchalant. Chairman Edgerton continues to hold business conferences at lunch in the M.I.T. cafeteria, and avoids board meetings whenever he can. Weekends, he uses his own underwater sonic pinger for a scientist's hobby: probing Boston's Charles River for an 800-year-old Viking ship that he believes may lie on the bottom...
...sudden and unexpected death of a senior scientist at Britain's top-secret germ-warfare laboratory cried out for explanation. The first War Office announcement only stimulated curiosity. It was possible, said a cautious official spokesman, that Geoffrey Bacon, 44, had been killed by "an accidental infection resulting from his work." A post mortem examination two days later revealed the full horror of what had happened. Researcher Bacon had been a victim of pneumonic plague, a form of the fiercely contagious Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, slaughtering millions and depopulating whole cities...
...schedule. The U.S. space program must proceed at top speed, he argues, even if the Russians (whose space spectaculars are the principal goad that moves Congress to the necessary generosity) should retire wholly from the space race. "When a great nation is faced with a technological challenge," says Scientist Holmes with scientific directness, "it has to accept or go backward. Space is the future of man, and the U.S. must keep ahead in space...