Tinkerers And Scientists
John P. McKelvey, in
And Scientists TechnologyReview (Jan. 1985), Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, Bldg. lo., Cambridge, Mass. 02139.
Scientists and technologists have lived off each other's creations for centuries. But scientists always seem to get the credit. McKelvey, a physics professor at Clemson University, maintains that technologists have unfairly been pushed to the back seat, that they have furthered scientific progress no less than have scientists themselves.
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