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A MANIFESTO on the relation of science to present developments in the international political situation has been issued on behalf of American men of science by a committee, of which Prof. Franz Boas of Columbia University, the doyen of American anthropologists, is the protagonist. It is a document which is no less remarkable for the extent and character of the support it receives, in view of conditions in the United States, than for its argument. It is signed by 1,284 scientific workers, including three Nobel Prize winners, Prof. Harold C. Urey of Columbia University, Prof. R. A. MiUikan of the California Institute of Technology, and Dr. Irving Langmuir of the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N.Y. The signatories are drawn from a hundred and sixty-seven universities and research institutes, and include eighty-five college presidents, deans, and directors of industrial laboratories and experimental stations; sixty-four are members of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Science and Democracy. Nature 143, 309–310 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143309a0
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