"We may first note an evolutionary trend that countered all of the educational systems and the deliberately increased professional specialization of scientists. This contradiction occurred at the beginning of World War II, when extraordinary new scientific instruments had been developed and the biologists and chemists and physicists were meeting in Washington, D. C... They found there was no real dividing line between their professional interests. They hadn’t meant to do this, but their professional fields were being integrated inadvertently, on their part, but apparently purposefully-by inexorable evolution."

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