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Jan. 6 2015 7:58 AM
English Is the Language of Science
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That’s lousy luck for scientists in most of the world.
By Boer Deng
Laboratory assistant working with a microscope at the Ngoma health center on February 5, 2014 in Ngoma, Rwanda.
A laboratory assistant works with a microscope at the Ngoma Health Center on Feb. 5, 2014, in Ngoma, Rwanda.
Photo by Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images
I learned English as a second language. Becoming an Anglophone turned out to be a crucial advantage in a brief scientific career years later. (I once worked as a medicinal chemist.) English is de rigueur for many things, but especially for science. More than three-quarters of scientific papers today are published in English—and in some fields it is more than 90 percent, according to data compiled by Scott Montgomery in his book Does Science Need a Global Language?.”
“More than three-quarters of scientific papers today are published in English—and in some fields it is more than 90 percent,”
Educational imperialism. I’m feeling triggered.