Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which to live. By the time he was in college, physics was in fascinating chaos. Blow after blow had shattered its foundations: Albert Einstein proved that matter is energy, Max Planck proved that energy comes in indivisible packets he called quanta. Lord Rutherford proved that though the very name atom means "indivisible" in Greek, atoms are not indivisible. Nothing seemed certain. One physicist declared that all students should be warned: "Caution! Dangerous structure! Closed for reconstruction...
...time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing wolf." As late as 1948 he declared that "anything is better than submission" to Communist dictatorship, even advocated dropping nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union if it refused international control of the atom...
...microscope to land on Mars and sample possible life there. Even more conducive to Big Science at Palo Alto is Sterling's most audacious 1962 coup: a $114 million AEC contract to build a two-mile linear accelerator, which eventually will be the world's most powerful atom smasher...
...Eger Vaughan Murphree, 63, president of Esso Research & Engineering Co. since 1947, a cool and persuasive executive-chemist who developed the 100-octane gasoline that boosted World War II bombers 43% in load-carrying capacity, served on James B. Conant's S-1 Committee, which set up the atom-smashing Manhattan Project, and in 1956 spent a year trying to unscramble the U.S. ballistic missile program as its first overall civilian boss; of a heart attack; in Summit...
...accident nine months ago. Canadian Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield was flown in to join physicians from Russia, France and Czechoslovakia in the effort to keep Landau alive. For the Soviets hardly needed the Nobel committee to tell them the value of the man who not only helped make their first atom bomb, but has been an important part of the growing Russian space effort...