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Waldemar Bernhard Kaempffer was born on September 23, 1877 in New York City, New York, United States, the son of Bernhard and Juliette Kaempffert.
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Waldemar Bernhard Kaempffer was born on September 23, 1877 in New York City, New York, United States, the son of Bernhard and Juliette Kaempffert.
Kaempffert received Bachelor of Science degree from the College of the City of New York in 1897. He continued part-time studies at New York University and in 1904 received the Bachelor of Laws degree. Although he subsequently was admitted to the bar and intended to become a patent attorney, he never practiced.
Kaempffert was employed by Scientific American, a periodical that discussed science for a general audience as translator in 1897. In 1911 he was promoted to managing editor and in 1915 Kaempffert was named editor of Popular Science Monthly, which became more pictorial and accessible under his guidance. In 1920 he left editorial work and for seven years was associated with the New York City engineering firm of Logan, Lord, and Thomas. Kaempffert continued the prodigious freelance output that he had begun while at Scientific American. His earliest article for a general magazine had been an account of a visit to Thomas Edison's home for Woman's Home Companion of February 1904.
Kaempffert returned to journalism in 1927, when he was hired as science editor by Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, and was appointed to the Times editorial board. He was perhaps the first such specialist in such a position on any major newspaper. As science editor--a post he held, with one interruption, until his death--Kaempffert wrote editorials and columns, covered meetings and other major scientific events, and contributed articles to the Sunday Times Magazine. The interruption occurred in 1928, when he was named the first director of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Kaempffert set out to create exhibits that would convince visitors that scientists did more to "transfrom the . .. earth and mold institutions than Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon. .. ." Pursuing this goal, he increased expenditures for research, the museum library, and staff. In 1931 he resigned from the museum.
Many of his policies were later abandoned in favor of spectacular displays. Back at the Times, Kaempffert became a fixture of the editorial staff. His own work was not always free of appeal to sensation or shallowness. It was said of Kaempffert's reader that "the depths of his mind remain untouched by the importunate knocking of ideas. " Kaempffert would have responded to this charge, as he sometimes did, that it was sufficient for the lay reader to accept the principal scientific concepts; he did not necessarily have to understand them. Kaempffert never retired and continued to work until felled by a stroke.
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Kaempffert was an advocate of science and of scientists' importance in society. He called for organization of cancer research along the lines of laboratories in major industries. In World War II he criticized the American Medical Association for its handling of physicians' assignments to the armed forces. During the Korean War he joined in rejecting Communist claims that germ warfare had been practiced against North Korea.
Quotations: "It is the business of the journalist to present the discoveries of the laboratory so that many will understand. .. . We have passed the stage when gaping wonder can pass for popularization. The facts, simply, humanly and interestingly presented, are what the public wants. "
Kaempffert was a charter member of the National Association of Science Writers, founded in 1934, and served as its president in 1937. He was also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and History of Science Society.
Kaempffert was always elegantly dressed and was sometimes addressed affectionately as "Count. "
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"If Waldemar B. Kaempffert did not create the profession of science writer, he certainly, over the last half century, invested it with new standards of ethics, scholarship, dignity and usefulness. "
On January 7, 1911, Kaempffert married Carolyn Lydia Yeaton. They had no children.