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...much as any man led the way in eliminating narrow specialties at Yale and in making sure that all Yalemen get in common the broad "background of all human knowledge." A gentle-mannered man who signs his amateur paintings "Edmund Ware" and is an authority on old Connecticut tombstones, Scientist Sinnott has spent a lifetime trying to heal the split between science and faith. "The two roads to truth . . . the way of science, confident in reason, and the way of faith, depending on the insights of the spirit, do not follow the same course." Yet man should not "regret these...
...South Side Chicago building, three miles from the stadium where the world's first atomic pile went into action 14 years ago, a shrilling alarm bell signaled the birth last week of U.S. industry's Atomic Age. As a white-smocked scientist twisted the knobs on a control panel outside a monolithic concrete cubicle, a lighted dial flashed: REACTOR ON. Thus the world's first nuclear reactor devoted exclusively to industrial research went into operation at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation...
...power behind the research race is industry's new-found ability to harness science and invention to production, systematize the search for knowledge by pressing the scientists into service in the industrial laboratory and project team. The swift spread of research has caused a redrawing of the traditional picture of the lone scientist or inventor experimenting in his own workshop and, with his own flash of genius, discovering a new principle and founding a new industry. Now task forces that may number hundreds are thrown into a project; with the help of such research-developed equipment as computers, they...
Nevertheless, the companies that have delved most deeply into fundamentals have in most cases come up with the richest booty. Du Pont's nylon came from basic research into molecular structures started in 1927 by Du Pont's late famed Scientist Wallace Carothers. When Dr. Carothers found a way to simulate the long-chain molecules found in natural silk, Du Pont applied his findings to the development of nylon, which reached mass production in 1939, after five years and $27 million for applied research. European scientists were quick to capitalize on Carothers' findings, developed other synthetic fibers...
...past century have stemmed from uncommitted experimentation. As G.E.'s Nobel Prizewinning Irving Langmuir points out: "Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from a planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the scientist to follow his own curiosity in search of truth...