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ONE of the main features of the development of science during the nineteenth century, as Prof. A. N. Whitehead has pointed out in “Science and the Modern World”, is the twin growth of technology and professionalism. Science was then for the first time conceived as a vast mine of ideas for utilisation in practical life, and in the disciplined attack on problems thus encountered in technological developments the scientific worker rapidly passed from amateur to professional status.
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Professionalism and Science. Nature 127, 961–963 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127961a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/127961a0