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Died. Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, 64, topnotch French scientist, philosopher; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Paris-born Scientist-Author du Noüy was at one time a member of the Rockefeller Institute, head of biophysics at the Pasteur Institute, a director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne. As a young officer in the French Army, he met Biologist Alexis Carrel (Man, the Unknown), under whose influence he became deeply interested in biophysics. In 1937, he attracted international attention with his book Biological Time ("Everything occurs as if sidereal time flowed four times faster for a man of 50 than for a child...
...scientist is a citizen who has added responsibility because of his specialized training," Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, declared last night in explaining the raison d'etre of the newly formed Students Association for Natural and Social Sciences...
Comparing the methods of today's and yesterday's researcher, he said that "it is our contention that the way the seventeenth century scientist would grope for what we now consider the basic law is the same way the scientist works today...
...Considerable emphasis will be placed on the relation of sciences to other social, intellectual, and historical growth," he stated, adding. "This will not only be a course in understanding the scientist, but also one in how and why he works...