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...probing deeper than any man before him into the hidden heart of matter. Born in New York and educated at City College of New York and Princeton University, Hofstadter went west to Stanford in 1950 determined to attack the great mystery of the inner structure of matter. Using a beam of high-energy electrons from Stanford's linear accelerator as a sort of microscope, he and a team of assistants proved that protons and neutrons, which form the bulk of matter, are dense at their centers, cloudlike outside and only one forty-thousandth of a billionth of an inch...
...agenda for future lectures are a Boston publisher, an electron beam researcher, a state department official, a jazz musician, and a local businessman. Dean Monro and Byron Stookey, Jr. '54, associate director of Advanced Standing, have also agreed to speak...
...Radar was also quick to discover the Russian tests. The radiation from a nuclear explosion causes changes in the ionosphere, the electrically charged layers of the upper atmosphere. The searching beam of a long-distance radar is reflected by this disturbance, making the aftermath of the explosion visible to receiving apparatus at the radar station...
...guesses later, too much despair). He returns to his hotel room, where his wife has been gabbling on the phone to her mother, and shoots himself through the head. Reasons for the cryptic suicide were suggested in a superb story written seven years later, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, in which Seymour's wedding day is recalled; it shows a sensitive, gentle, somewhat weak man about to tie himself to a mass of hair nets, deodorant bottles and parroted psychiatric untruths...
...Bydgoszcz. At night, tenting a blanket over his head to hide his flash light beam from the Valley Forge duty officer, Salinger (by now called Jerry) had written his first short stories. But if he told his family that he intended to be an author, he did not convince Papa Sol. In 1937, after Jerry spent a few unproductive weeks at New York University, the two Salingers set out for Vienna. "I was supposed to apprentice myself to the Polish ham business," Salinger wrote in a 1944 issue of Story Magazine. "They finally dragged me off to Bydgoszcz...