Information concerning 243,000 scientists is reported in the 1966 National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel. Data are presented on education, specialization, type of employer, salary, age, sex, and other factors selected to meet the needs of most users of data on scientific personnel. Discussed are characteristics of scientists and…

There are available nursing research project grants, special fellowships in nursing research, and nurse scientist graduate training grants. Research awards have been made to support clinical research studies in various medical specialties as well as studies of patient care systems and health care technologies, including the organizational…

Data from the 1962 postcensus study of science and engineering manpower are used to analyze how women fare in these occupations. The study compares the typical woman at various ages to the typical man. She appears more likely than the man to have a father in a white collar occupation. Statistical comparisons are made on advanced degrees, marrying…

This newsletter is divided into four sections: an introduction, news items, communications from readers, and "Aristocracies of Learning in Russia and the West." This last section contrasts the problem of the intellectual schism between Western scientists and literary men with the traditional partnership among dissident intellectuals in…

This booklet is concerned with the last half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century when a great surge of knowledge vital to atomic science took place, as illustrated by work by Faraday, Mendeleev, Roentgen, Becquerel and the Curies. Each succeeding discovery brought atomic science closer to the great breakthrough that marked the close…

Reports on an interview with Ron Diener, head of the Office for Systems Planning and Research at Harvard University Library. (PF)

Gives highlights of the life of Alfred Wallace, co-developer with Charles Darwin of the theory of natural selection. (LS)

Origins and details of various women's caucuses in chemistry, mathematical sciences, biological sciences, physics, engineering, and geosciences are provided. In addition, their collective aims and activities are appendixed. (Author/KR)

Describes the methods a scientist employs in his scientific writing. (DD)

Examines previous studies in an attempt to obtain a general picture of the foreign language problem in science and technology and to identify the best means of combating it. (PF)

A study of white women members (N=347) of the American Chemical Society who died between 1925 and 1979 finds five times the expected rate of suicide, a higher risk for some forms of cancer, and a lower rate of heart disease. These and other findings are discussed. (JN)

Information science is presently a mechanistic discipline which needs to be humanized. There must be more communication between librarians and information scientists, perhaps through seminars and exchanges, to bring the advantages of computerization to bear on human needs. (LS)

Frequencies of the number of references per paper were obtained for information science literature represented by papers cited in Information Science Abstracts, volumes 1-6 (1966-1971). The ratio of papers without references to those with references was proposed as a measure of the scholarly status of a field. (13 references) (Author/SJ)

Soviet treatment of Jewish scientists and other professionals and Soviet emigration policies serve as issues which may deter U.S. - U.S.S.R. cooperative efforts in science and technology. (DF)