not reflect the true industrial laboratory setting in our country.) Indeed, the article seemed to confirm overwhelmingly the short shrift given industrial science by The Scientist.
Most scientists work in industry, and we feel that our contributions play at least as great a role as those of the academic community in maintaining America's scientific and technological leadership. We win NIH and NSF grants. We make the better tools and develop many of the techniques by which means academic scientists achieve their breakthroughs. We work just as hard, are just as bright (and dull!), and just as driven as our academic colleagues.
Indeed, as a group, industrial scientists probably have a far better idea of what should be done to maintain our country's scientific leadership than do our academic colleagues.
PHILIP J. WYATT
President
Wyatt Technology Corp.
Santa Barbara, Calif.
