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Academy group will review Shockley notion

Title
Academy group will review Shockley notion
Description
This article in Science World describes how the National Academy of Sciences created a committee to investigate whether human intelligence is more dependent on inheritance (i.e. race in this context) or on the environment, upon the request of physicist William Shockley. The article also details Shockley’s attempt to present a controversial paper examining correlations between IQ and race at Dartmouth, and how it was successfully halted by a group of 20-30 Dartmouth students who clapped intermittently for 90 minutes until the speech was called off.
Containing Publication
Science World
Date Created
1969-10-27
Rights
In Copyright
Rights Holder
Science World
Citation Information
Science World, “Academy group will review Shockley notion.” Oct. 27, 1969. Shockley Incident records, DA-23, Box 2852, Folder 6, Rauner Special Collections Library.

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