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Rays from Space. Scientists know that cosmic rays are protons or larger atomic nuclei striking the earth from space with energies up to one hundred million billion electron volts. But they do not agree about where cosmic rays come from or how they get so powerful. Professor Bruno Rossi of M.I.T., a leading authority on the subject, seems to favor, tentatively, the theory that the cosmic ray particles were shot out of stars at moderate speed and were gradually accelerated by magnetic fields in space. But he is by no means sure. "At present," he says, "no hypothesis about...
...were taken over by chubby Boris Davison, a top scientist at Harwell. Dr. Davison got a complete security clearance, though he was born in Russia (to a British father and a Russian mother) and his mother still lives in the Soviet Union. When another top atomic scientist, Italian-born Bruno Pontecoryo, absconded to Russia with nobody-knows-how-much secret information, Dr. Davison got another checkup, and was cleared, even though it was known that he still wrote regularly to his mother in Russia. He voluntarily submitted all letters to and from his mother to British security officers...
...last week, when the Atomic Energy Commission, after much hesitation, awarded $300,000 to the Italians and their associates. Besides Fermi, two of them, Drs. Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segre, are now atomic scientists in the U.S. The fourth, Dr. Edoardo Amaldi, is still in Rome. The fifth, Dr. Bruno Pontecorvo, will have trouble collecting his. He vanished in Finland in 1950 and is now presumably working for the Russians...
Despite the long hours. Jakobson puts in at his desk, he is in excellent health. He has always maintained his physical condition by taking long walks along country roads. While in Czechoslovakia, he and his wife used to walk 230 miles from Bruno to Prague whenever a visit to the city was necessary. When he is staying at his favorite Czech farmhouse in the Catskills, he takes regular hikes and, according to his former secretary, will almost break river ice for a morning swim. A year ago while Jakobson was hiking along a highway, a car struck...
...professors are: Louis Bruno Sohn, Francis Alfred Allen, Arthur Taylor von Mchren '43, Kingman Brewster, Jr., and William Covington Hardee...