Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hidden political questions in social science research can also be seen by considering advisory work performed for the government. Vernon feels that most consultants with government agencies lends the adviser an opportunity to press for "new initiatives, bright departures" in established policies. A political scientist who gave advice on counter insurgency warfare or political development in Vietnam. for example, would probably justify his activity by saying that he was merely offering technical assistance: the question of whether the policy was appropriate was irrelevant to his own technical, non-ideological role. By saying nothing about the purposes of counter-insurgency warfare...
...blacklisting of a researcher or scientist prohibits his serving on HEW committees regulating research activities and Federal grants...
They examine the duty scientist's report, a photograph of the sun taken that morning from the roof of the Observatory building, and a forecast of the sun's activity from the federal Environmental Science Services Administration. They then determine the most promising wave-lengths and sections of the sun to observe during the next day. The duty scientist sends these instructions to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center near Washington, D.C., which then transmits the instructions to the satellite via a convenient tracking station...
...satellite records its observations on a 100 minute long tape. When it passes over a tracking station, the ground controller orders the satellite to replay the entire tape in about five minutes. The tracking station then relays the broadcast to Goddard which sends the data to the duty scientist at 60 Garden Street through a special teletype machine. Tracking stations also ship magnetic tapes of each transmission a week later, and these tapes are eventually analyzed by computers here...
...STOCKHOLM-An M.I.T. scientist, Salvador E. Luria. was one of three men to receive the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine this year...