Word: scientists
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When the American Cancer Society gathered a number of the nation's big-name researchers in Palm Beach Shores last week, the most provocative report came from a hitherto-unknown scientist who is not even a specialist in human cancer. Dr. Olive Stull Davis has cancer, and if her theory is right about how she developed the disease, her own case may provide valuable insight into how some cancers are caused...
Chemist Robert Havemann is a tortured German intellectual who embraced Communism before 1933 as a way to oppose Nazism. Then a topflight scientist at Berlin's famed Kaiser-Wilhelm (now Max Planck) Institute, he was saved from a Nazi death sentence when the German army argued that he could be more useful with his head on than off. As a result, he did chemical research for the Wehrmacht during World War II while locked up in Brandenburg Prison. After the war Communist Havemann became one of East Germany's star scholars, won the Patriotic Order of Merit from...
...facile writer of both fiction and philosophy. He could talk intelligently on almost any subject. When he died of a heart attack in Stockholm last week, his colleagues the world over testified to a special sense of loss. For Wiener was one of a vanishing crew-a first-rate scientist whose curiosity and skills covered a variety of disciplines...
...report said that "the independence of the universities" must not be violated. "The responsibility of the government for the expenditure of funds and the freedom of the scientist to conduct his own research, reach his conclusions in his own way, and make them public" must also never be restricted in the awarding of grants, it added...
...maximize both the freedom of the scientist and proper use of funds, a project proposal should include both short-term and broader long range objectives. However, only "a deviation from the broad objectives should call for special approval from the federal agency," the report warned...