Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mathematical Interrelations. Fefferman has written nine major papers on his specialty, Fourier analysis, a branch of mathematics pioneered by Joseph Fourier in the early 19th century. Fourier sought to explain wave phenomena in heat; his theories were later applied to water, light, sound and electricity. Fourier's breakthrough was essential to the development of atomic physics; and all communications equipment-radar, radio, television and so on-is dependent on his formulations...
...week in West Berlin's old Prussian High Court Building, they are expected to make it a marathon session that may last three days. Speculation was that they are ready to hammer out the last kinks in an "umbrella agreement" on the city's status. Such a breakthrough could not come at a more fitting moment: this week marks the tenth anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall...
...Project X" team-as they were dubbed-worried about losing the story. Village Voice Writer Nat Hentoff had run an item about a "breakthrough" war story, and it was believed that the Washington Post was on to the Pentagon study. For seven weeks the team worked seven days a week, often past midnight; in all, some 30 Times staff members were eventually involved. Gold saw his family only five times during the period. Sheehan, who has a bad back, took daily walks in the beginning; but as deadline time neared, had even given up sleeping. The last push was provided...
...first wartime breakthrough was the invention of RDX (research department explosives) which was much more effective than TNT. After three years of conventional explosives research. Kistiakowsky began his two years of research on the atomic bomb. Next, he said, "we finally understood how to control detonation of explosives as a precision instrument-using very high pressure very suddenly...
...Lauderdale, complete with acidheads, amphetamine freaks, pot lovers and a sizable sprinkling of good old American paranoids. Until late 1967, some credulous observers believed that American youth, led ever onward by psychedelic visions from the best LSD ever produced, was on the brink of making some sort of cultural breakthrough. In truth, however, the Haight had by that time become a transcendental sewer...