Charles L. Schwartz
Work for Social Responsibility in Science
BRIEF HISTORY of INITIATIVES
1967 - Pushed the American Physical Society to allow discussion
of
controversial
issues involving science and politics (e.g., the Vietnam War)
1969 - Co-founded the organization Scientists and Engineers for
Social
and Political Action (later renamed Science for the People) -
A Partial Archive of SftP
1970 - Formally reprimanded by the Chancellor at Berkeley for
requiring
students
to adopt a mild
Hippocratic Oath for Scientists
1970 - Fired from staff position at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
for
organizing
lunch-hour discussions on controversial issues involving science
and
politics
1970 - A NOBEL Dialogue
1974 - Probing the Rockefeller Fortune
(Congressional testimony)
1975 - 1990 - Taught a course in the Physics Department:
"Physics
in the
American System", a critical study of the political, economic, and
social forces that influence the work of physicists and scientists
generally
various occasions - arrested for practice of nonviolent civil
disobedience
various occasions - public lectures on the nuclear arms race and
other
issues
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Bibliography
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
"Publish & Perish: Integration of University Science with the
Pentagon"
(with Paul Selvin) in Science for the People, Vol. 20
Jan/Feb
1988
"Scientists: Villains and Victims in the Arms Race: An Appraisal
and
a Plan of Action" in Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Vol.
19 No.
3/4
1988
"Career Information for the Socially Responsible Student in
Physics/Chemistry/
Mathematics/Electrical Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering/
Materials
Science,"
six versions of a booklet published at Berkeley 1989.
>>> Physics Booklet
"Political Structuring of the Institutions of Science" in Laura
Nader,
ed., "Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries,
Power,
and
Knowledge," New York: Routledge, 1996 here
"The APS: A Scientific Society or Cult?" Letter in APS News, American Physical
Society,
April 1998