Scientists Here Are Making Series Of Programs for Educational TV

Eight professors from Harvard and one from M.I.T. have undertaken a series of television programs designed to bring science and scientists closer to the general public.

The series, to be filmed for telecast by WGBH-TV, is patterned after the General Education program in the Natural Sciences, acording to Lawrence Creshkoff '46, executive producer of the series.

Filmed at the WGBH studios in Cambridge, the programs are being sponsored by the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council of which Harvard is a member. They will be broadcast by about 24 educational stations around the country beginning early in the fall.

There will be 23 programs in all, dealing with physics, chemistry, geology, and astronomy. They will be designed, Creshkoff said, to bring a better understanding of science to the public, largely by presenting the scope and method of the work of scientists.

Some of topics to be covered are, "Nature v. the Laboratory," "Pure Science and Applied Science," "Building a New Theory," "Are Scientists Dogmatic," and "Are Atoms Real."

In charge of the programs at Harvard is Phillippe E. LeCorbeiller, professor of Applied Physics and General Education. Others working with him are Bart J. Bok, formerly Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, I. Bernard Cohen '37, associate professor of the History of Science. Others include Gerald Hilton, associate professor of Physics and of General Education, Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus.