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...improvements represented a high degree of skill . . . but not invention. Patents . . . are not intended as a reward for a highly skilled scientist who completes the final step in a technique. They are not intended as a reward for the collective achievement of a corporate research organization. To give patents for such routine experimentation ... is to use the patent law ... to create monopolies for corporate organizers instead of men of inventive genius. We are bound to interpret the patent law ... to reward individual and not group achievement...
...half century no U.S. scientist has been officially dead until the patriarchal weekly Science published his obituary...
...right as a scientist, Dr. Cattell rated much more than perfunctory notice. To him the U.S. owed not only much of its information about scientists, but also much of its passion for psychological tests. With William James, Cattell pioneered the U.S. study of psychology...
...talk, no reputable United Nations scientist or military man believes that secret weapons will have any decisive effect on the war's outcome. This certainty springs in part from the probability that there is no such thing as a completely secret weapon-jet-propelled planes (flown by Italians before the war), rocket guns and atom-busting have all been subjects of intense research by both United Nations and Axis scientists. In part this skepticism springs from the fact that secret weapons have seldom given an army anything more than a temporary advantage...
Confronted with these astounding claims, bemused U.S. doctors last week would not commit themselves because, to them, much Russian research seems intuitive rather than logical-the average Russian scientist often prefers to work things out in his head without resort to guinea pigs. U.S. doctors reluctantly admit that he often comes out with the right answer, but they want to be shown. U.S. research on ACS has already begun...