WALTER J. MURPHY, EDITOR
Changing Patterns
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waa a time when the compeht scientist “read his journals” T worked h e for Grandfather may be a total failure now. This doesnot n d y imply, either, that Grandaa a matter of c o w , and accomplied both ends without undue trouble. No peraon could hope to read everything p u b father was any more capable than his descendants. It may just mean that our world today is not the world that G m d l i e d today in the field of chemistry, even if he allowed no father hew. t i e to apply his howledge. So, incw&gly, meohsnised methods are being sought for wuchii the literature, and The field of chemistry has beem utterly tran$omed within the life span of men still living. Many of its institutions are new literature treatments are a p p i n g that ah designed to stimulate and aid internretation. Them ehannes do not come aLw r e v d i siena of channe. Indeed. the visible alterinn of three major i o h g tecGquea may ;dgnify adjutmen6 in without travail. Nit& and readem must work bard to dethe institutions of chemical h c e and technology of quite velop and effeetivey w feataim that aid the wknilation fundamental and fal.regohing significsnce. T h a teobniquea rate. Meahaniaed searoh &cdn muire .? rigorous nota, are the prooeases of expmimmtal d, recording and etonal vocabulary and a seerehing development of m “grammar” that will pmvide good annwem when the “question” is 1ocating.infonnation from such -ch, and the utilization of technical manpower. pmpounded via machine. In &, new machinea must be d e Chemical and chemical engine&& re%esrch in the United uigned that have the wit to locate the anmvem. And this Sbtea today is almost wholly the pmductof teams. The whole process, too, is not actuated supernsturally, but must rest ultimately on 8killed human specialists in d i n g and stsggering volume of scientific and technological knowledge that exkk has made this change inevitable. The lonely inmachine operation. We thus add another player to the h ventor has vacated his gsrrat to join the pioneering m modemrasesrchtesm. group in a laboratory equipped to u t i l i the pow& tools Which brhga ua b the third signilimt phenomenon, the now available to fuel his imagination. The garret, mom than & fithat requim techniaa howl6dge likely, has been converted to a penthow that d o d i the today. For exam&, the buyer fer a textile manufwtum ever-increasing c l w of technicalexecutive who hss the msnamust sapnooiate $he technical merita of a new synthetic fiber gerial skill, technical insight, and bmod judgm& to.dldots if he is to aet with im$lligemce. Thisitlwtration could be folcomplex organization toward the g d of u d u l new products lowed by a thowmd m m just aa entremeand just aa p w tinent. No induatry in Untouchadby real or potential benem d pmceaea. This team mby -bin chmmiuta, phyeiciats, ch&cal and other engilm, mathemati* market I‘B. fits tbrcslga pmper spplication of chemical pducts. How search speciplists, biologists, medical doctom, wnomistewill them needs be met7 Flow will they km met in the next ’ them is v i r i d l y no limit to the W s that may be employed few yearn, when the paduationof technically trained persons in the WJUR &OA. is actuallv d e c l i i t How Bwn will we d u s t the BUDWe maysigh nostelgically for the days of the garret invenply of &ns w h i &en have the capacity for technidal tor, but few would W u t e the statement that chemical DIU- t r a i i ? ductivity in the of man has n6verbeem greater ihen , Ec&mic laws have already come into play on the manit is today. At one time chemical phenomena constituted a engineers power pmblem. 8slsriee for oheanieta and & i d great, lush wildinto whioh the intrepid explorers of the have a d m d fapidly in the pest two y e m as employem laboratory could plunge to carveout theiro m individual empb of
