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“Albert Michelson,1 hearing of Einstein’s confirmation of his findings, strode into the Royal Society in a tight black T-shirt printed with the legend ‘Michelson Rocks’. Contrary to rumour, Michelson has not made a fortune from his shares in Interferometers-R-Us.com, though others have. He sold too late and made only ‘a few million’, he told me, just enough to buy his famous 90-foot yacht.” (Collins 2005:50).
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Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931), American physicist of German origin. Known above all for having obtained, in 1882, an extremely accurate experimental measurement of the speed of light, and for the experiment with which he showed, together with Morley, the absence of any effect of the speed of the earth on the ether, the substance whose existence had been postulated in order to explain the propagation of light waves. Michelson was the first American physicist to be awarded the Nobel Prize (1907).
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Figures referring to 2002 from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: see UNCTAD (2005).
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See Eberle (1997). It has been pointed out that the iconography of scientists and inventors in this period was largely modelled on the religious iconographic tradition (Mazzolini personal communication).
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Price recalls that scientists like Kepler or Hooke not infrequently encrypted their results, thereby establishing their priority but without disclosing too much information to their rivals (Price 1963:68).
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The web site where the do-it-yourself kit is on sale is http://www.dnasolutions.co.uk
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“Oil Firms Fund Campaign to Deny Climate Change”, The Guardian, 27 January 2005, 1. See also Ward (2007).
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The New York Times, 4 August 2005.
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Cordis news, 17 February 2004, http://www.cordis.lu
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“Cancer: Drugs Raise Hopes for a Cure”, Herald Tribune, 4 May 1998. See also Revuelta (1998).
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In general, according to Max Weber’s well-known statement, “The belief in the value of scientific truth is the product of certain cultures and is not a product of man’s original nature.” (Weber 1922:110).
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See, e.g., “We Play Too Safe”, in New Scientist, 27 August 2005, 4.
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Bucchi, M., Belton, A. (2009). Einstein Has Left the Building: Coming to Terms with Post-academic Science. In: Beyond Technocracy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89522-2_2
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