Evening star., 1943-04-15
Famed Scientists Say
War Does Not Spur
Work in Research
MiIIikon, Morgan, Nobel
Prize Winners, Assert
Ideu Is Folse
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PASADENA, CaEf.-Two Of the
worlds greatest scientists. DR.. Rob-
ert A. Millikan and DR.. Thomas
Hunt Morgan, sco6 at the notion
that war stimulates scientific re-
search.
Both are deeply involved in work
related to the war and both look
forward to peace and the unin-
peded forward movement of sci
ence.
ut is q terrific blunder to as
sumo that war promotes science, I"
said Mr.. Milhkan, winner of the
Nobel Prize in physics in 1923 and
chairman of the Executive Council
of the California Institute of Tech
nology.
"Ninety-nine per cent Of scien-
tific inventions have not been the
result of the stimulus of war as
many people believe. These inven-
tions are only applied or adapted to
war. War diStorts science-namely.
wasting energies on things which
are not beneficial to humanity.
Didn't Need Stimulus.
DR.. Morgan, professor emeritus
of biology at the institute and
Nobel Prize winner In medicine in
1888. said:
I'VE didn't need a war to stir US
up. We had plenty to do without
it. However most Of our work in
the laboratories now has been con-
verted to experiments and studies
which will best serve our war effort.
We are not only willing to stop our
normal pursuits in science to help
win the war. We are most anxious
to do it."
DR.. Morgan is 76. DR.. Millikan IS.
Although most of the research
at the institute is a military secret,
DR.. Morgan disclosed that one of
the projects is the study of guayule
rubber plants.
The professor won the Nobel Prize
for his work on heredity. Using the
drosophila f1y in his studies and ex-
periments he developed the funda-
mental laws of Mendel, which have
proved invaluable to science and
medicine.
Experiments Further.
The same laws We discover dur
ing our research governing this
type Of ny can be applied to human
beings" he said.
He is now studying and expert
menting with cross and sef-fer-
tilization in the marine tunicate.
The behavior of the tunicate, he ex-
planned, has been found to conform
to certain definite laws of human
heredity.
He and his associates have bred
more than 800 new fly types.
He predicted that bio-chemistry
will be synonymous with and in
valuable to the medical world of
tomorrow.
Another little tapped reservoir
in medicine is the study of. i'm
munity ON which We are conducting
experiments and research here. This
will be an immense study field after
the war"
DR.. MiIlikan Works fer u. s.
DIR. Morgan, . native OF Lexing-
ton, KY. did undergraduate work at
the University Of Kentucky, and
Johns Hopkins and was biology pro-
fessor Mt Bryn Mawr and Columbia
before coming here in loz8.
DR.. Aillikan, miracle man of the
cosmic ray. is at present engaged
in many activities for the Govern
ment and is afliliated with several
committees directly connected with
the war effort.
He is . member of the California
Defense Committee of the institute.
the Huntington Library and the
Mount Wilson Observatory
We are trying to tell the Amer
lean public Of its opportunities and
responsibilities in the postwar era -
he said. The United States must
play its natural role after the war
that Of participation in all inter-
national affairs"
He believes permanent peace can
be maintained through an inter-
national police force or - league
Of nations with teeth in it."
when the war and the peace that
follows are won," he declared, we
must make it impossible for the
bandit nations to run amuck in the
world again"
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