Word: chemist
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Paradoxically, America's lack of longstanding intellectual traditions-in fact, its strain of anti-intellectualism-may also have helped the cause of science. The best minds have not been overburdened with required studies that are remote from their interests. Sir George Porter, a British chemist who won a Nobel in 1967, recalls that he had to put up a stiff fight to be allowed to study science instead of Latin or Greek at his grammar school in England. "Very few Americans speak ancient languages," he says.-"But for 150 years there has been a tradition in America of appreciation...
...feeling that it's linear, not humane, not 'with it.' " To his credit, President Carter, trained as an engineer, now seems to be fighting this trend and pushing for more funding for basic research. But many scientists doubt that this new generosity will be enough. Chemist Philip Abelson, editor of Science, notes that Nobel prizes are usually awarded long after the work they honor has been performed. "Don't misunderstand," he says. "The U.S. has hardly fallen out of the tree. But stick around ten years to see the results of our current domestic attitudes." Thus...
That's the word from a Florida chemist, who has found what he calls a sharp decline in male fertility...
...world's foremost organic chemist," Elkan R. Blout, Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry, said yesterday...
...first chemist to simplify the synthesis of complicated organic compounds and to make possible the synthesis of chemicals before found only in nature, Tischler said...