Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preoccupation with immediate, practical results, the U.S. is badly neglecting pure scientific research. The warning was sounded last week by Nobel-Prize-winning Atomic Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg* before a joint meeting in San Francisco of the Atomic Industrial Forum and Stanford's Research Institute. Seaborg's clincher: of the nation's huge ($3 billion) annual outlay for science, "no more than 5% . . . is used for basic research...
...Francisco, Stanford University's Research Institute and the Atomic Industrial Forum held their first conference on peacetime atomic energy, drew 530 businessmen, engineers and scientists from every corner of the U.S. At the conference, such companies as Kaiser Engineers, Glenn L. Martin Co. and American Machine & Foundry reported that they were expanding their nuclear laboratories by as much as 300%, spending up to four times as much money as before. One group of 33 companies, banded together in a combine called Atomic Power Development Associates, announced that it was upping its budget to nearly $4,000,000 this year...
...insurance man, left an unusual bequest. He set aside $25,000 for a "contemporary appraisement . . . without fear, favor or prejudice" of the influence of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the U.S. The appraiser chosen by the Parker executors: Edgar Eugene Robinson, now 68, longtime professor of American political history at Stanford, and founder of that university's Institute of American History. Professor Robinson does more than fulfill the terms of the Parker will; he brings to his book the settling virtues of scholarship and cold common sense. The F.D.R. who emerges from The Roosevelt Leadership is supremely confident, politically astute...
...difficult to recapture the feeling of "intellectual holocaust" into which Darwin's doctrine of evolution by natural selection plunged the world. So much the better that Stanford University's Professor William Irvine should be the man to have made the attempt. U.S. biography has become world renowned for the depth and breadth of its research, but almost invariably it has paid for its weightiness in stolid writing and lack of imagination. Author Irvine (who proved his touch in 1949 with The Universe of G.B.S.) is one U.S. biographer to show that vast masses of research can be moved...
Iowa and Oklahoma were close behind with 14 points each, ahead of Iowa State with 13, and Stanford...