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...fiction becomes science fact, the exploits of Buck Rogers seem less and less fanciful. Reviving an old idea, two University of California scientists have now proposed that astronauts follow in the footsteps of Buck and Wilma. Man's next target in space, Hannes Alfvèn and Gustaf Arrhenius argue in Science, should be one of the tens of thousands of asteroids -or planetoids, as Buck called them -that circle the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter...
Princeton's energetic Sir Hugh Stott Taylor, 68, noted physical chemist who headed the department of chemistry from 1926 to 1951. has been dean of the university's Graduate School since 1945. Lancashire-born Chemist Taylor studied with Nobel Prizewinner Svante Arrhenius at Sweden's Nobel Institute for Physical Chemistry, has stayed in the U.S. since he came for a "brief visit" in 1914. Known for his work in catalysis, photochemistry, radiochemistry and chemical kinetics, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth...
...bacteriologist, Dr. Arrhenius knew that there were three temperature types of bacteria, those living at low temperatures, the psychrophilic; those living at the temperatures of the human body giving us so much trouble, the mesophilic; those living at high temperatures near geysers, volcanoes etc., the thermophilic...
...astronomer, Dr. Arrhenius took up the problem, calculated the average temperature on Venus, found it to be the temperature these bacteria like best. Other conditions being suitable this must be their Fatherland. But how did they come to earth...
...physicist, Dr. Arrhenius turned to his formulas and calculated that sunbeams were their express trains. Now and again Venus gets directly between the sun and the earth. The sun's rays skim the surface of the planet, picking up any adventurous thermophilic bacteria that are in the way and shooting them to earth. The trip takes only two days and the speed is so great that many would survive the cold interstellar spaces they whiz through on the journey...