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James A. Van Allen lab journal, March 1958-September 1959
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"(The Public Image of the Scientist)". 5/9/1959 A recent thought which should be developed - The popular image of a [ pure?] scientist has arisen, to a very considerable extent, from the adoration for Einstein and extensive popular literature on him! The effect, I believe, has been to greatly distort the methods and motivations of science and actually retard science viz: (1) A scientist must be a genius (2) He must be wild haired and wild-eyed (the "mad scientists") (3) He must
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"(The Public Image of the Scientist)". 5/9/1959 A recent thought which should be developed - The popular image of a [ pure?] scientist has arisen, to a very considerable extent, from the adoration for Einstein and extensive popular literature on him! The effect, I believe, has been to greatly distort the methods and motivations of science and actually retard science viz: (1) A scientist must be a genius (2) He must be wild haired and wild-eyed (the "mad scientists") (3) He must
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