Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight years' training in how not to be exceptional. The unusual student who can survive all this-the destruction of initiative, the repression of spontaneity-is exceptionally exceptional." So spoke California Institute of Technology Psychologist John R. Weir last week at a round-table discussion of Caltech and Massachusetts Institute of Technology educators on how to cope with the exceptionally exceptional student...
Corporal is a result of the Korean war, when Army chiefs called for the best missile that could be put into production almost immediately. The best proved to be a moderate-range research rocket developed by Caltech's Jet Propulsion Center. It was a scientist's baby, unduly complicated. Corporal units are ready for action; but there are worried doubts about its reliability...
...addition to the $210 million, 126 of the 615 schools will get $50 million in "accomplishment grants" to reward them for the efforts they have made on their own to better their professors' lots. Since these institutions must be primarily concerned with the liberal arts, such schools as Caltech, M.I.T. and Carnegie Tech are excluded...
Biggest of all big questions that scientists ask is: "How did the universe originate?" At last week's Pasadena meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, two Caltech professors, Astrophysicist Jesse L. Greenstein and Physicist William A. Fowler, took issue with the "big bang" theory of the birth of the universe. According to this theory, all the matter in the universe was once concentrated in a single dense mass consisting mostly of neutrons. Some of the neutrons disintegrated, forming protons and electrons. They joined with the protons and one another, forming heavier elements. The original nuclear reactions were complete...
...particular pride is the San Andreas Fault, a great crack in the bedrock that leads from the Mexican border to Point Arena, no miles northwest of San Francisco, and out to sea. When the fault slips, it causes a major earthquake. Last week Seismologist Charles F. Richter of Caltech outraged chambers of commerce by warning that the San Andreas Fault has been gathering pressure for a major bust-loose...