[Right Wing Professor]

What they didn't mention was that the Republicans had already sent two scientists to congress, Vernon Ehlers and Roscoe Bartlett, and that Ehlers, in fact, had a far more distinguished career as a physicist than Holt. But not only did they not mention that, they hardly ever mention that these two very conservative members of Congress are scientists with excellent scientific records who have done much to help continue scientific funding in tight times.

I didn't know this. I'll look them up.

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His web site: After three years of studying at Calvin College, Ehlers received his undergraduate degree in physics and his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1960. After six years teaching and research at Berkeley, he moved to Calvin College in 1966 where he taught physics for 16 years and later served as chairman of the Physics Department