A Psychologist Examines 64 Eminent Scientists
The present shortage of qualified scientific workers raises the question of how they are made. Some interesting answers are given by the techniques of modern psychological testing
Features
A New Era in Polio Research
Until recently the virus that causes the disease was grown by the expensive and inconvenient procedure of inoculating monkeys with it. Now it can be cultivated in the test tube
Photographic Development
Although picture-making today is a highly refined art, chemists still do not fully understand the basic process whereby an image is formed and developed in an emulsion
Sleep
The diurnal rhythm of man's life is significantly reflected in his physiology. To the physiologist the question of why we sleep is perhaps less interesting than why we stay awake
The Nerve Impulse
How do living things transmit electrical signals with equipment composed largely of water? Although there is disagreement on some features of the process, much has been learned about it
"Client-Centered" Psychotherapy
In which a new approach to the treatment of troubled and neurotic people has led to an interesting series of objective studies in the effect of such treatment
Is there an Infinity?
The great German mathematician Georg Cantor proved that, so far as mathematics is concerned, there is. Presenting a celebrated account of his ideas and their consequences
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: November 1952
Science and the Citizen: November 1952
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, November 1952
- Recommended
Books
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Scientist
- Departments
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