Eminent science writer John Maddox, writing in the Manchester Guardian in 1962, asked if a new ice age was on its way.
Today the two eminent science policy veterans came to Washington, D.C., to unveil a report from a panel of academic and industry leaders assembled by the Cambridge, Massachusetts based American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
It presents 60 speculative visions drawn or painted by, among others, some of the 20th century's pre-eminent science fiction illustrators.
Arthur C. Clarke, probably the pre-eminent science fiction writer of the 20th century, wrote the forward to an accompanying exhibition book, "Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes".
In his later years, after settling in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Mr. Clarke continued to bask in worldwide acclaim as both a scientific sage and the pre-eminent science fiction writer of the 20th century.
She is the patron of Maria Curie-Skłodowska Curie-Skłodowska Universityded in 1944; and of Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI), France's pre-eminent science university.
Organized by Norman Brosterman, an independent curator, collector and writer, the show presents 60 mostly small, speculative visions that were drawn or painted by, among others, some of the 20th century's pre-eminent science-fiction illustrators.
And, in spite of their progenitor's concerns about inherited feebleness, they have produced dozens of descendants eminent in science, medicine and the professions.
With the global landscape shifting and new national and regional powerhouses emerging, countries long established as eminent in science have begun to cede their shares of worldwide research output as well as their dominance in producing the most influential results.
Her vision for the university is to make it "the world's pre-eminent health sciences innovator".
But two eminent historians of science, both Catholics, have claimed that Bishop Etienne Tempier's condemnations of 1277 were a crucial stepping-stone on the way to modern science.
