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Pulitzer winner speaks at Forum. (Sigma Xi Today).(Brief Article)

American Scientist

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If science was ever a thing apart, a special way of living and of seeing things, that time is past. Today, science is the vital principle of our civilization.

To do science is critical, to defend it the kernel of political realism. To define it in words is to be, quite simply, a writer, working the historical mainstream of literature.

JON FRANKLIN

FROM THE END OF SCIENCE WRITING

At the 2002 Sigma Xi Forum in Galveston, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Jon Franklin will discuss the public perception of scientists and how that might affect interest in studying and understanding science. The author of five books, Franklin is currently Philip Merrill Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

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