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Archetypal Scientists [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
We introduce archetypal analysis as a tool to describe and categorize scientists. This approach identifies typical characteristics of extreme ('archetypal') values in a multivariate data set. These positive or negative contextual attributes can be allocated to each scientists under investigation.
Christian Seiler, Klaus Wohlrabe
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To Be or Not to Be a Scientist? [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Abstract Employers regularly complain of a shortage of qualified scientists and advocate that to remain competitive more scientists need to be trained. However, using a survey of graduates from British universities, I report that 3 years after graduation less than 50% of graduates from science subjects are working in a scientific ...
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Psychology of the Scientist: VI. Scientist as Artist

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1963
Those traits which are often accepted as characterizing the artist are also characteristic of the creative psychologist; the creative psychologist is an artist.
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An "Ordinary" Scientist?

Science, 1996
I was amazed to see Dick Day's statement that some people think we might keep persons like Adolph Hitler from coming to the United States if we were to stop foreign scientists from coming to work in this country (J. Glanz, “Proposals that would limit visas strike fear at universities,” News &
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The Patient Scientist

Scientific American, 2011
The article reports that Nobel Prize winner Ralph M. Steinman died of pneumonia just three days prior to receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2011. After being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2007, he and his colleagues used immunotherapies to treat his disease. These experimental vaccines utilize dendritic cells, cells that train
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Scientists in exile

Science
Since 2001, the United Nations has designated 20 June as World Refugee Day. It seeks to raise awareness of refugees—currently estimated to be more than 114 million persons internally displaced, exiled, or on the move—and the often-harsh conditions they confront around the world.
Gary E, Machlis   +1 more
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