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What is the typical U.S. scientist like? In the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dr. Richard L. Meier, onetime executive secretary of the Federation of American Scientists, tries his hand at cataloguing his colleagues. Items...
...disturbing to have lost the feeling of belonging to one reassuring community, to New England, or to the United States, or to Western Civilization . . . The scientist and the poet took these away. It is a lonely and alarming business to feel one's self one in a creation of billions and billions . . . but it is exciting and inspiriting to be among the first to hail and accept the only fraternal community that finally can be valid-that painfully emerging unity of those who live on the one inhabited star...
...British call "hysterical" if displayed by Americans. Police on two continents, including Scotland Yard, launched a gigantic man hunt for Donald Duart MacLean and Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess. Everyone recalled the case of Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs and the flight of Britain's Atom Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo behind the Iron Curtain last year. The general fear last week: that the two men had gone over to the Russians, taking secret information with them...
...Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey, a D.Sc.; to Sociologist Robert M. Maclver, an L.H.D.; to Political Scientist Charles E. Merriam, a Litt.D.; to Psychologist Edward C. Tolman, a D.Sc.; to Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Percy W. Bridgman, a D.Sc.; to Astronomer Henry Norris Russell, a D.Sc.; to Philosopher John Dewey, a Litt.D.-all from Yale University...
Like many another scientist, Physicist Pollard has thought deeply about man's failure, so far, to cope with the powers which science has unleashed. He finds his main assurances in Christian faith and hope. An Episcopalian all his life, he strongly objects to any suggestion "that I am an atomic scientist who, disillusioned, has taken to religion...