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...Pauling has made his own theories yield far-reaching results. He has explained many properties of metals (e.g., their magnetism) by means of atomic behavior. His most telling work has been on proteins, the chemical basis of life. Patiently he took proteins apart and showed that their enormous molecules are made of twisted atom-chains, spiraling many layers deep like manila hawsers...
Because of a faulty transformer, officials fear they may not be able to crank up the atom smasher again if they let it stop before new parts arrive next month. Two men shifts have been assigned to the temperamental cyclotron on a 24-hour guard: one man is never allowed alone in the same room with the high voltage instrument...
Herodians, Zealots & a Nymph. Toynbee is sure that a universal state-a single, worldwide government run either by Washington or Moscow-has been rendered inevitable ("sooner rather than later") by modern technology. The atom bomb clinched it. The only question is: Will the world state come about by war or peacefully? Toynbee has no illusions that it can be brought about by the U.N., or by any "talismanic blueprint of a federal constitution." His own answer is conditioned by a fascinating historical analysis of how nations try to meet the penetration of foreign civilizations. There are, he says, two constantly...
Retreat into Mystery. Two weeks after Fermi reached New York, he heard about the famous telegram telling Niels Bohr that uranium fission had been discovered in Germany. Fermi knew what it meant: that enormous energy might be extracted from the uranium atom. Soon he was part of the vast U.S. attempt to release that energy in an atomic bomb...
Buck, Dean and Provost for 15 years until his resignation in 1953, has served as virtual president of the University twice: when former president James B. Conant '14 was absent for atom research during the war, and later when Conant resigned to serve as West Germany High Commissioner...