Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York operations office of the AEC is presently attempting to draft the contract in language agreeable to both sides, and the University is "prepared to sign it as soon as they get it up here," according to Stuart H. Cowen '42, assistant director of the Office for Research Contracts...
...controversy first arose when the AEC attempted to insert certain restrictions into the contract. The Commission originally wanted to control all exchange of information between the CEA staff and Soviet bloc scientists, and to place strict limitations on visitors to the accelerator...
...Award, given last year to Physicist Edward Teller, was J. Robert Oppenheimer, 58, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The announcement and a long biography detailed Oppenheimer's contributions to the development of nuclear energy, but did not mention the 1954 hearings, after which the AEC's five commissioners voted 4-1 to declare the physicist a security risk because of "fundamental defects in his character . . . close association with Communists . . . falsehoods, evasions and misrepresentations." After all the years of this stain on his record, many of his scientist associates have been urging the Government...
...those schöne jahren (beautiful years), brilliant minds and crackling chalk-talks lured young scholars like Werner Heisenberg. a future Nobelman who wandered about in lederhosen, and Italy's Enrico Fermi, future U.S. father of the Abomb. U.S. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, winner last week of the AEC's Fermi Award (see PEOPLE), got his Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1927. Another Göttingen recruit: Hungary's Edward Teller, future U.S. father of the H-bomb...
Harvard's Office for Research Contracts handled the negotiations with the AEC efficiently, but the bargaining will not be complete when the contract is signed. It is entirely possible that the University could have had even more of the restrictions removed if it had held out longer. And it may prove unfortunate that Faculty and AEC convenience were given priority over complete freedom of action for the University...