Word: chemist
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...Elite. No one better symbolizes the status of the Russian scientist than Aleksandr Nesmeyanov, 58, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and titular head of all Russian science. The son of a school principal, he became a distinguished chemist in his own right, headed the University of Moscow during the period when its skyscraper (39 stories) campus became the tallest structure in Europe east of the Eiffel Tower. With his wife, who was once one of his students, Nesmeyanov has a spacious apartment near the academy and a sizable dacha outside of town. Though a member of the party...
Carbon 14. As that uproar quieted, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling, 57, head of the chemical labs at the California Institute of Technology, made headlines with his newest point: the most dangerous element of nuclear-test fallout over a period of five to 10,000 years is not strontium 90 but carbon 14, a low-radioactivity but long-lived (half-life: 5,568 years) isotope that from tests already held will, said Pauling, cause 5,000,000 defective children in the next 300 generations. Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, one of the world's top authorities on carbon...
...emeritus of Manhattan's Riverside Church; Pollster Elmo Roper; National Farmers Union Boss James G. Patton (who runs N.C.S.N.P. material free in N.F.U. publications); Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman; Librettist Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II; and the committee's scientific anchor man, Caltech's busy chemist and busy politician, Dr. Linus Carl Pauling, longtime supporter of Communist-line fronts,* whose ideology was never noticeably shaken by the suppression inside the Soviet Union for years of his own Nobel Prizewinning discovery about the resonance theory of chemical bonds. Among the signers of an earlier nuclear policy committee...
Back in 1928. Kansas City Chemist J. C. Patrick stirred up a gummy mess of sulphur, carbon and hydrogen in an attempt to find a better, cheaper antifreeze. What he got was not antifreeze but one of the first types of synthetic rubber. He named it Thiokol (after the Greek for sulphur and glue), and with friends formed Thiokol Chemical Corp. As a rubbermaker, Thiokol did not go very far saleswise (one reason: it smelled so foul that it was dubbed "synthetic halitosis"). But since the age of space, the company has rocketed because Thiokol is a chief component...
This week CBS's Edward R. Murrow devoted an extra-long See It Now, a full 90 minutes, to nuclear-test hazards. Among the scientists crying alarm on the TV screen: Caltech's Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling, who last January presented to the U.N. a stop-the-tests petition signed by 9,235 U.S. and foreign scientists, including three dozen Nobel laureates. Pauling was balanced off against Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, a distinguished nuclear chemist himself, who declared that "hazards from fallout are limited" and that nuclear tests are needed to lessen the "awful threat...