Science under Fire.
The article focuses on the significant impact of the dismissal of Dr. A.V. Astin, director of the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS), on the American scientific community in 1953. Astin was ousted after the NBS deemed the car battery additive AD-X2 ineffective, a decision that conflicted with the...
| Publicado en: | History Today Vol. 75; no. 10; pp. 12 - 17 |
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