VOL. IX, NO. 3
OCTOBER 27, 1967

Language Benefits Science
If you are planning to go into a science career, you should get a background of two or three years of high school Russian-three years preferably," urges Mrs. Marsha Davidson, Russian instructor.

One out of every five papers on chemistry, mathematics, and other areas of scientific research are written in Russian. Surprisingly enough, only five percent of the United States scientists have a reading knowledge of this language.

Because of this inability, valuable Soviet research discoveries may be lost to U.S. scientists. In the U.S. even with the development of electronic 		translating machines, translated versions of Russian papers often appear six to eight months later than they originally appeared in Russia.

Future U.S. scientists are urged to learn enough Russian to be able to scan Soviet publications and recognize, if not translate, important facts on specialty. But scanning is no their specialty. But scanning is no substitute to complete translation.

The Russian language is offered throughout the four years of high school. It has the least amount of student participation of all the languages offered, yet it is of major importance to all science students.