. Collected reprints, Essa Institute for Oceanography. Oceanography Leningrad palace houses elaborate institute for arctic research, in which Soviet excels, hut computer for processing sea data is old-fashioned type. Russian) wagered as to the vintage of one building because of its Vic- torian appointments and rather di- lapidated appearance. In recognition that the building was undoubtedly newer than it looked, guesses ranged from 1922 to 1960. When we in- quired about the age of the building our host answered, "It was com- pleted this ; Science in the Soviet Unio
. Collected reprints, Essa Institute for Oceanography. Oceanography Leningrad palace houses elaborate institute for arctic research, in which Soviet excels, hut computer for processing sea data is old-fashioned type. Russian) wagered as to the vintage of one building because of its Vic- torian appointments and rather di- lapidated appearance. In recognition that the building was undoubtedly newer than it looked, guesses ranged from 1922 to 1960. When we in- quired about the age of the building our host answered, "It was com- pleted this ; Science in the Soviet Union re- mains under strong political control, but I could not find any evidence of Lysenkoism in oceanography. (Ly- senko was, of course, the pseudo- geneticist who did immense harm to Soviet science and agriculture be- cause his belief, that acquired char- acteristics could be passed on genet- ically, was elevated by Stalin to an article of political faith—like Hitler's Aryanism. Lysenko was rejected and then partially rehabilitated under Khrushchev, but under the current regime he has been rejected once again.) Perhaps as a result of the control, Soviet oceanographers are notably uncreative. They follow the classical patterns and the conventional ap- proaches rather than probe the real frontiers—there isn't anything radical about Soviet science. There remains a tendency to subscribe to a school of thought promulgated by some academician. Bright new ideas, the stuff of break-throughs in science, seem lacking. The Russians are pre- eminent in Arctic oceanography, but their extensive works on the Arctic Basin make dull reading. We tend to ignore Russian literature in our own scientific writings, partly be- cause of the language barrier, but also as a consequence of the general barrenness of many Russian papers. The full employment of women is a remarkable and, to me, heartening aspect of Soviet science, especially in the life sciences. Over-all, the Soviet workforce is 55 per
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