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...Britton Chance, University of Pennsylvania biophysicist, beautifully handling the .32-11. 6-in. sloop Complex III, the world 5.5-meter sailing championship, by defeating 24 other boats from eleven nations at Poole, England. Though disqualified for colliding with another yacht in the fourth of six races, Chance, who won an Olympic gold medal with his 5.5-meter yacht in 1952, sailed so well in the others (two firsts, a second, a third, a sixth) that he ended with 6.184 points and a margin of more than 400 points over the second-place finisher...
...Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md., who stumbled onto the new-type taxidermy after a peanut butter-baited mousetrap at his home snared an unsuspecting cardinal. "I felt so bad about it," says Meryman, "that I decided I ought to give the bird a place in posterity." No taxidermist. Biophysicist Meryman, 39, tried an experiment. Posing the cardinal carefully, he first froze its joints into position with liquid nitrogen, then popped the bird into his kitchen freezer. When the moisture in the bird's body had turned to ice, Meryman used a vacuum pump and a chemical desiccant...
...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...