Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elements of the Mystic." Wendell Mitchell Latimer, professor of chemistry at the University of California and associate director of the university's radiation laboratory, painted the same picture as Dr. Alvarez. Dr. Latimer wanted to move ahead with thermonuclear development right after the Russians exploded an atom bomb...
Citation: "Your studies on the fine structure of the hydrogen atom have been responsible in a large measure for the recent progress in quantum electrodynamics...
Among other notable results: ¶ In the Sixth Congressional District (northeast of Berkeley), Democratic Representative Robert L. Condon was renominated, although he had been 1) barred from an atom-bomb test in Nevada last year by the Atomic Energy Commission as a "security risk," and 2) disowned by the Democratic National Committee...
...Chairman Strauss and Oppenheimer have a professional relationship besides the atom: Oppenheimer is director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Strauss is president of its board of trustees...
Assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, Cheshire worked on the problems of dropping the first atom bomb. He watched the bombing of Nagasaki from an observation plane ("I remember thinking that it was dropped a little off target, but of course that didn't matter...