William Shockley was both a Nobel Prize winning scientist and a racist. He claimed that people of color were genetically degenerated from the superior white race and he advocated sterilization. I'd heard him say so myself. He also seems to have advocated that the Germans be spared the atomic bomb, and that it be used on the Japanese based on their race. You can read about the racism hereWilliam Shockley's NYT Obit, and the A-bomb business is mentioned on his wikipedia page.

Here is a bit of background on Eugenics and Physical Anthropology here in the States. The website that it is part of a very good website on the race and racism over the years.

My original point, which has been lost, had to do with the idea that people tend to expect science to provide the same things that once were promised by religion--prosperity, deliverance from evil, elimination of disease, and the ability to fly thru the heavens--well, we got the last one, but as P.F. Sloan once pointed out, "You can leave here for four days in space, but when you come back, it's the same old place."