‘The scientist – Today’s forgotten man’ was the title of the editorial in the first issue of New Zealand Science Review, published in December 1942 by the newly formed New Zealand Association of Scientific Workers (NZAScW), later to be renamed New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS). While looking to a new age – a ‘Scientific Age’ – to ‘fulfill the hopes of a disillusioned world’, the writer summarised how: ‘... [the scientist’s] painstaking work, which does so much to alleviate human suffering, lighten labour, improve man’s environment, and release his mind from the shackles of superstition, doubt, and fear, is rarely recognised.’