Sorokin, Aiken to Discuss Role of Modern Scientist

Three professors will discuss "The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist" at 8:40 p.m. tonight in the second Law School Forum of the year at the Rindge Tech auditorium.

Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Norbert Weiner, professor of Mathematics at M.I.T., and Henry D. Aiken '40, associate professor of Philosophy, will talk on the social duties of American scientists and their ethical responsibilities in an Atomic Age.

Aiken is substituting for Leo Szilard, professor of physics, at the University of Chicago, who wired yesterday that he is ill and unable to attend the meeting.

Important issues in the discussion tonight will be: the extent of political activity in which a scientist should engage; his duty as a mediator between the government and an uniformed public; what position he should take in educating the youth to an awareness of the scientific forces operating in the world today.

Weiner has recently been studying the operation of the human mind through mathematics; he has helped, through his theories and conclusions, in the construction of mathematical "brains," which are being used in many fields of research today. His most recent book is "The Human Use of Human Beings."

Sorokin has written a number of books on the dynamics of social groups and the impact of cultural media on personality and society.