Science: How to Lose Scientists

Government jobs don't look very attractive these days to U.S. scientists. The widely publicized attack by the House Un-American Activities Committee on Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the National Bureau of Standards (TIME, March 15), has helped scare other valuable scientists away. Last week the Atomic Scientists of Chicago, Inc. (all of whose members worked on the atom bomb project in wartime) offered some proof of how the rank & file of science feels about Government service.

The A.S.C. asked the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Denver to find out, by the most approved and careful methods,...

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