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Professional Associations of Scientific Workers

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THE leading article in the issue of NATURE dated November 14 directs attention to the limited scope of most professional associations of scientists and emphasizes the need for one which concerns itself with the social aspects of science. The Association of Scientific Workers has for many years tried to fulfil this function, as reference to its policy will show. ” The main objects of the Association are to promote the interests of the Scientific Worker and to secure the wider application of science and scientific method for the welfare of society.”

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WOOSTER, W. Professional Associations of Scientific Workers. Nature 138, 1017–1018 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381017d0

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