Chắc chắn, không phải tất cả các dự án sẽ thành công trong lĩnh vực này, nhưng một tỷ lệ phần trăm đủ lớn của tất cả các dự án. Vì vậy, ông nói với chúng tôi về một cách tiếp cận với khoa học lệch đáng kể từ các cách tiếp cận từ trên xuống hiện đại, nơi mà nó thường là số lượng các ấn phẩm trong thiên nhiên và Khoa học quyết định nhiệm kỳ và nghề nghiệp. | Preface xvii the de facto end of the Cold War the Vannevar Bush approach is no longer valid . 6 At that time Walter was 80 so it did not need to concern him. Walter Munk belonged to a fortunate generation of scientists who could mostly determine themselves how to pursue their science. As long as it was considered good science everything was fine because - in the logic of Vannevar Bush - this would eventually lead to useful results useful for the nation for the military for industry. Certainly not all projects would succeed in this respect but a sufficiently large percentage of all projects. Thus he is telling us about an approach to science that deviates markedly from contemporary top-down approaches where it is often the number of publications in Nature and Science that decide on tenure and careers. Maybe the old model of science is irrevocably gone maybe there will be some kind of renaissance sometime later. There are also other things to learn from Walter. He is not talking about university committees about the need to be present when the purportedly important people meet when allegedly significant decisions are taken. Instead he just goes on doing science thinking about waves tides the rotating earth sound propagation in the ocean - always on the move from the short term to the long term always inventing new terminology always grasping the hidden core of a problem. We have seen many Fig. Judith and Walter celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on the patio at Seiche their self-designed and self-built home north of Scripps Institution of Oceanography 2003 . In Austria Walter s homeland country houses were often named. Seiche is an oceanographic term for oscillations of a lake or landlocked sea however there is no scientific significance here Judith s mother chose the name because she liked the sound of the French word. Judith and Walter have welcomed guests from around the world to Seiche for over 50 years 6 . House of Representatives Committee on .
