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TWENTY years ago there were very few scientific workers in the Civil Service; only one or two Departments existed where a knowledge of science was a qualification for employment, and the higher Civil Service contained Few men who could claim even a nodding acquaintance with scientific thought The rapid growth of the public Services within the last fifteen years, the assimilation of public utility companies into the State system, the creation of entirely new Departments, and the realisation forced upon Ministers by the war of the necessity for scientific research in the nation's interest, have resulted in the employment of thousands of scientific and technical workers Many of those engaged temporarily during the war have returned to the universities or other institutions from which they were recruited, but a large number remain and have been absorbed by various State establishments. The position of suc workers demands our earnest attention. Prejudice dies hard, and there are still many men in high administrative positions in the Civil Service who hold science in contempt, and this feeling is reflected in their attitude towards scientific workers in their Departments.
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Science in the Civil Service. Nature 107, 1–2 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107001a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107001a0