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The Growing Shortage of Scientists and Engineers: Proceedings of the Sixth Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Institute, November 21-22,1955. 132 pp. New York: New York University Press. $4.00

There is a lot of commotion these days over the shortage of scientists, as well there might be. As a nation we admire science too much and study it too little. Such criticism is not just another stanza of “Excelsior”; we do not have the scientists and engineers we need for economic and military purposes. Officials like AEC Chairman Strauss, National Science Foundation Director Alan T. Waterman, and other members of this Institute are worried sick over the shortage, especially considering reports that Russia is alive with mass-produced scientific fledglings.

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The Growing Shortage of Scientists and Engineers: Proceedings of the Sixth Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Institute, November 21-22,1955. 132 pp. New York: New York University Press. $4.00

There is a lot of commotion these days over the shortage of scientists, as well there might be. As a nation we admire science too much and study it too little. Such criticism is not just another stanza of “Excelsior”; we do not have the scientists and engineers we need for economic and military purposes. Officials like AEC Chairman Strauss, National Science Foundation Director Alan T. Waterman, and other members of this Institute are worried sick over the shortage, especially considering reports that Russia is alive with mass-produced scientific fledglings.