The Popular science monthly (1912) (14767301904)

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Title: The Popular science monthly

Year: 1912 (1910s)

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Subjects: Science Technology

Publisher: (New York, Popular Science Pub. Co., etc.)

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ted him in the methods of cultivatingliving tissues; but this in no wise de-tracts from the importance of the workhe has accomplished. As he himselfsaid at the reception given to him atthe College of the City of New Yorkattended by President Taft and theFrench ambassador: Almost everystep in scientific progress which ap-pears to be due to the efforts of oneindividual is, in reality, the result indi-rectly of the unknown scientific workof many others. Dr. Carrel certainly is not respon-sible for the exaggerations of thenewspapers. It is an excellent thing1 that the New York Times and other: daily papers of New York City havebecome aware of the news value of thescientific work accomplished at theRockefeller Institute. The reports areusually based on papers presented be-fore scientific men and on articlesprinted in scientific journals; the in-vestigator may suffer from headlines,inaccuracies and the exploitation of thesensational, but these may becomeeliminated, and the public may become

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■>- Dr. Simon Flexner, Director of the Laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute, from a painting by Adele Herter, of New York City, presented to the University of Pennsylvania by the colleagues and students of Dr. Flexner at the time he was professor there. THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 617 of educated to the human interestscientific research. It may be regarded as a cause forcongratulation that the administratorsof the Nobel bequest have this yearmade some of the awards to youngermen actively engaged in research—Dr.Carrel is not yet forty years old—rather than to men of distinction whoselife work is practically complete, ifonly because this was the condition ;under which Nobel bequeathed his for- :tune. By his will it was specified thatthe prizes should be awarded to thosepersons who shall have contributedmost materially to benefit mankindduring the year immediately preceding;that no preference should be given toScandinavians in the awards, and thatthe entire income should be use

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