Memorial Tributes Volume 1 (1979) / Chapter Skim
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Clifford Cook Furnas
Clifford Cook Furnas
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One reads often of a shrewd lawyer, of a wily politician, and so on, but the adjective wise is reserved for the wise old doctor, or farmer, or even the wise old woman. There is a weakness in our educational process that makes the word combination wise scientist a jarring anachronism.
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In the latter year he joined Yale University as Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering. In 1941 and 1942 he worked for the National Defense Research Committee, coordinating a large research and development program.
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