He received several hundred pounds from the fund over the years, at a time when the concept of a conflict of interest would not have occurred to anyone. Throughout his career, Tyndall argued that the scientific researcher should be allowed complete freedom of choice of his necessarily male research agenda. But that did not mean that he had no time for the application and commercialisation of scientific discoveries. Tyndall objected to patents, and never took one out himself, despite several opportunities.
We have science and the applications of science, which are united as the fruit is to the tree. That is particularly true of his work on germ theory supporting the idea of germs as infectious agents and arguing against the spontaneous generation of life and on the transmission of sound in the atmosphere.
Tyndall believed it was vital for improving human health that the germ theory, championed by people like Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister, be shown to be true. He worked over many years to break down scientific and medical resistance to the theory. In conducting research on foghorns, he came to an understanding that the state of water vapour in the atmosphere affected the transmission of sound. Despite this, Tyndall would have been the first to argue that it was he who had chosen the research focus, and that he was not to be directed by anyone else.
He had no time for bureaucrats. In a lecture on the electric light in , a novelty at the time, he declared: We have amongst us a small cohort of social regenerators — men of high thoughts and aspirations — who would place the operations of the scientific mind under the control of a hierarchy which should dictate to the man of science the course that he ought to pursue.
How this hierarchy is to get its wisdom they do not explain.
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Is it a hierarchy with wisdom? In a recent talk at the Institute for Government, Sir Mark Walport, chief executive of UKRI, outlined the strategy of the new organisation, which has been entrusted with public funds that Tyndall could only dream of. Walport set out the management agenda on such matters as challenge funds, roadmaps, talent development, commercialisation and collaboration.
Fiction published as fact, this purported to be the true account of a recently deceased resident of Maine returning as a ghost. Many of Mitchell's fictions—published originally as factual newspaper articles—deal with ghosts or other supernatural events, and would now be considered works of fantasy rather than science fiction. Mitchell often inserted more than one innovative concept into a science-fiction tale.
His story "The Senator's Daughter", set in the future year , contains several technological predictions which were daring for the time: This same story contains several social predictions: In , Mitchell married Annie Sewall Welch. During the early years of Mitchell's tenure at the Sun , they lived in an apartment on Madison Avenue , where the marriage produced two sons. The second son was born during a visit to relatives in Bath, Maine.
By all accounts, Mitchell's family life was happy. One of Mitchell's colleagues at the Sun was that paper's night editor Garrett P. Serviss , who would also become an important figure in early science fiction. Burroughs; this marriage produced a fifth son. During his lifetime, his journalism paid him well, and he clearly had no desire for public recognition, since he had many opportunities to achieve this yet never attempted to do so.
With the exception of "The Tachypomp", which was published in Scribner's Monthly , all stories were published in The Sun. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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