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...M.I.T. scientist expected that the meeting would "discuss mostly the work of the Russians in recent years." Several members of the Soviet Academy will probably give talks on different aspects of their work, Weisskopf said, and the content of these talks will be evaluated in group conferences...
...National Science Foundation said last night that it would pay travel expenses to and from Moscow, averaging about $2,250 per scientist, for all those granted passports. However, the Foundation indicated that it does not yet know how many passports have been applied for or granted...
...contradictory character. A cold scientist in the days when he was dissecting the nervous system of crayfish, he gave play to another side of his personality when he took his plunge into the Unconscious; even some of his ardent followers concede that in psychoanalysis Freud was unscientific. By nature both tolerant and reflective, he could also be both impatient and intolerant. A searching student of human nature who saw it in all its shades of grey, he yet had a naive way of seeing all acquaintances as either black or white-with the added complication that white friend could turn...
Genetics was treated to the full fury of Communist polemics. It was denounced as "capitalist-reactionary" and as "the prop of the ideology of imperialism." To say a good word for a gene or a chromosome might cost a Soviet scientist his job or even his life. Nothing like this massive attack upon the observed and provable truth had happened in a major country since the persecution of Galileo for insisting that the earth revolves around...
...look at science only in terms of technical applications, we entirely miss the point," Victor F. Weisskopf, visiting lecturer in Physics, said last night. He claimed that people today tend to think of the scientist as a machine-man for making bombs, and in doing this, they lose the value of pure science...