The union employed scientists to help it compile the list of 50 questions for Alderson.
You write about the mutual mistrust of academic scientists and privately employed scientists.
Dr. Cuomo cited several telling examples from Greek and Roman history in which rulers employed scientists for their knowledge of geometry, physics and engineering skills in developing more powerful and reliable catapults.
Independent organisations permanently employ only a few research managers, while their main workforce comprises third-party-financed, temporarily employed scientists.
They invite a handful of gainfully employed scientists, give them microphones, and then let the arbitrary information flow.
Women have since made dramatic gains, doubling and quadrupling their representation in college and graduate programs in science, and among employed scientists and engineers.
In many cases, institute deans or university administrations have employed scientists temporarily using external funding sources without putting in place any career or personal development plans.
In France, universities and public research organizations have long employed scientists in permanent positions through civil service contracts that must be won in nationwide, annual competitions.
Unlike independent bioengineers, their status as employed scientists generally places them in a situation where they have to execute their employers' orders.
As a consequence, employed scientists either appear as "workers" fulfilling their company's business goals, or as being torn between the expected loyalty and profit-oriented commitment and their own research ambitions.
Federally employed scientists working at the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the U.S. Geological Survey have been responsible for enormously important inventions, from the Internet and GPS to the bar code and the micro chip.
