"There is more to scientific research than the advertisements' picture of a little man in a white coat swinging a test tube," stated Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, at last night's conference on Scholarship and Research.
Purcell, Clyde M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology and director of the Russian Research Center, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, spoke before a large crowd at Kirkland House.
Nobel Prize winner Purcell said that the physical scientist "must like the atmosphere of research and the type of challenge it presents."
Jones remarked that the chief attraction of an academic career "is the opportunity to lead your own intellectual life in your own way and to get paid for it."
Kluckhohn and Purcell said that there are many opportunities for research in their fields outside as well as within the university community.
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