Abstract
Dr. Henry Eyring, in his ACS Presidential Address in New York, suggested that concentration on a single tongue in science should be encouraged in every way possible. Noting that even the ablest scientist is hard put to keep abreast of the developments even in his narrow specialty, Dr. Eyring said that the Babel of tongues in which science is being published adds to the general confusion. A scientist could possibly read science in a dozen languages, he observed, but because more scientific information is published in than in any other language, the scientists of the western world have in large measure adopted imperfect English as the language of science. Dr. Henry Eyring, in his ACS Presidential Address in New York, suggested that concentration on a single tongue in science should be encouraged in every way possible. Noting that even the ablest scientist is hard put to keep abreast of the developments even in his ...
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