Word: biophysicist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare gesture of across-the-Curtain appreciation, the top-drawer Soviet Union Academy of Sciences awarded membership to 30 non-Russian scientists and scholars, including two Americans: Nobel prizewinning Caltech Chemist Linus Pauling, 57, vociferous foe of nuclear testing, and Biophysicist Detlev W. Bronk, three-term president of the National Academy of Sciences, former president of Johns Hopkins University. Named a corresponding member: brilliant, furtive Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, 44, who fled to the U.S.S.R. from Great Britain in 1950 with a vast knowledge of A-bomb research...
Last week Hocking tore himself away from his farm and journeyed to Manhattan to receive a prize that is highly coveted among scholars-the LeComte du Noüy Award, named after the late French biophysicist who tried so eloquently to reconcile the conflicts between science and religion. The award is given alternately in France and the U.S. each year for the book that most successfully points the way to "the greatest development of the spiritual thought of our epoch.'' The book Hocking won it for: The Coming World Civilization (Harper...
Injected Signals. "The logical extension of electroencephalographic research," said Schafer, "may result in the formation of another hybrid science, biocontrol. The biophysicist has measured and recorded the electrical activity of the central nervous system, and shown that neural [nerve] currents control many of our mental and muscular activities. The electronic-control scientist has taught us that minute electrical signals, properly amplified, may be used for the control of airplanes, guided missiles and machine tools...
...great mushroom of smoke rising into the sky . . . The skin of my bare arms seemed as if it had been held before a hot fire and was tingling ... I was wearing dark-tinted spectacles at the time ... I thought this fact might be of interest to Ophthalmologist Rose and Biophysicist Buettner...
Sightseeing during an atomic bombing is unwise; it may destroy the sight of anyone who is otherwise safe from the heat and blast. This is the warning of Ophthalmologist Heinrich W. Rose and Biophysicist Konrad Buettner, who looked into the matter at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine...