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Gerard Piel
(1 Mar 1915 - 5 Sep 2004)
American publisher was science editor of Life magazine (1939-1944). Then he purchased Scientific American (1947) with Dennis Flanagan as editor, Donald H. Miller as general manager, and a group of investors. As publisher, Piel helped revive the monthly magazine as a more sophisticated and authoritative monthly, with feature articles often written by experts, but accessible by an educated general public. Piel authored several books.
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Science Quotes by Gerard Piel (1 quote)
Without publication, science is dead.
— Gerard Piel
In editorial, 'The Social Process of Science', Science (1988), 231, No. 4735, 121. The editorial was excerpted from a Lecture at Moscow State University, Moscow, U.S.S.R. (25 Nov 1985) for conferral of the degree Doctor Honoris Causa.
See also:
- The Age Of Science: What Scientists Learned in the 20th Century, by Gerald Piel. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Gerald Piel.