"Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field."
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People from New York (state)Presidential Medal of Freedom recipientsPhysicists from the United StatesYale University facultyPrinceton University alumni
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in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March 1953), Vol. 9, No. 2,ISSN 0096-3402, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., p. 38.
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Alan Tower Waterman
Alan Tower Waterman (June 4, 1892 – November 30, 1967) was an American physicist. In 1950, he was appointed as first director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). He served as director until 1963, when he retired and was subsequently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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