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Q & A with Adrian Bejan

(02/02/09 9:00am)

When Sputnik scanned the skies more than five decades ago, there was a call to arms for the United States to put more strength into science. As nuclear science took off and rockets were launched into the heavens, an important figure seemed to disappear. The lone scientific genius-the Einstein, the Newton, the Galileo-had seemingly been replaced by armies of scientists in glassy-windowed institutions.