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Should science be on the defensive, remorseful for having made the Bomb? Among those who think not is quick-smiling, quick-thinking Dr. James Bryant Conant, Harvard's eminent chemist-president, and a top U.S. wartime scientist. Last week, Dr. Conant held a press conference in Manhattan to launch his just-published book, On Understanding Science...
...teach something of the "tactics and strategy of science" is the aim of the book's proposed course: the suggested method, to do so by using "case histories." In an introductory chapter President Conant develops the concept of the role of science in the non-scientist's education and responsibilities. There is nothing new here. From such diverse sources as the General Education Report and the Smyth Report on Atomic Energy, the growing need for some sort of mass comprehension of science has been iterated and reiterated. When President Conant concludes that the layman can best understand science through...
...clear, and even a complete scientific ignoramus can come very close to understanding all the technical material it contains. This simplicity is the outstanding literary value of "On Understanding Science." Combined with the book's provocative argument, it makes the initial combination of Conant the educator with Conant the scientist a work of considerably wider popular interest than the majority...
...highly mathematical and no severe prerequisites are stipulated. It is an excellent practical distribution course; out of it, the non-Astronomy-major should get a reasonable good grasp of the natures of physical laws, atomic physics, and the universe, and in general an appreciation of the way the scientist solves the problems of nature...
...mathematicians and a scientist from the University faculty have received Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships for the coming year, Foundation headquarters in New York announced last night...