Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California courtroom, an accused murderer will soon be confronted by a novel adversary. A witness for the prosecution will be an atomic scientist, armed with "radiation fingerprints," evidence that can be as accurate and reliable as a photograph of the actual crime. No ordinary cop could hope to gather such fingerprints, or even to decipher them. They are the product of neutron activation analysis, which requires that specimens under study be irradiated with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Then the fine details of their chemical composition can be deduced from the pattern of the radiation they give...
...scientist LL.D...
...techniques, and the humanist's education with seeing science in the broad intellectual frame of reference. This attitude is almost inevitable in the face of difficulties on both sides: the undergraduate science major hasn't the time to see how his work fits into intellectual traditions, and the non-scientist has no ultimate use for technique. That is, strictures of time keep the scientists on their side of the divide, while strictures of value are more important to the non-scientist. This suggests, that, given the chance, the science student could get more from a course with a broader outlook...
THEY weren't new questions. But they were being asked insistently and energetically by someone who indicated that she might even know the answers. Applying the shock treatment with all the skill and persistence of a dedicated scientist was Radcliffe's fifth President, Mary I. Bunting...
...urges students to express their views on everything from meal educational policy, Mrs. Bunting unwilling to acknowledge any of "the special needs of the students" that differs radically from her own. She wants the undergraduates to become self-conscious, to and re-shape their education, and insists on the scientist's of laying down the guidelines...