This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On September 1, 1939, the same day that ...

THE strength of any nation — for peace or for war— is critically dependent on the strength and quality of its laboratories of pure and applied science. In 1940 there existed in this country a large, ...

AKNOWLEDGE of the dielectric properties of materials is valuable in both pure and applied science ; for the electrical engineer its importance is obvious, and for the pure scientist it throws light on ...

General Atomic, then a division of General Dynamics, announced it would build a nuclear laboratory on city-owned land at Torrey Pines 65 years ago. The John Jay Hopkins Laboratory for Pure and Applied ...