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Some reputable scientists are impressed by the Claus-Nagy findings. Nobel Prize-winning Chemist Harold Urey of the University of California says after viewing the evidence: "I was very much impressed. It must be taken seriously. Either these objects were contaminated in a most remarkable way soon after they arrived on earth, or else organisms have been transmitted from outside the earth's atmosphere." But Physicist Edward Fireman of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge points out that carbonaceous chondrites are porous and notoriously eager to absorb moisture, including organism-bearing sweat from the hands of people who touch...
Eight professors of Physics at the University of Iowa have challenged the statement by Nobel Prize winning chemist Willard R. Libby that 90 to 95 per cent U.S. residents could survive an atomic attack with proper protection. They pointed out that Dr. Libby is considering particular kind of attack, and by no means the most probable...
...former husbands and some love letters ("They were hotter than the fire"). Like everything else in Southern California, reactions to the high-caste holocaust constituted a weird and wonderful display of human idiosyncrasies. Bandleader Billy Vaughn was among the 150 fire fighters injured (none of them seriously). Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby came home to find the roof of his much-publicized $30 fallout shelter reduced to coals, stubbornly insisted: "I have more faith than ever in the shelter." Kim Novak, artfully decked out in slacks, soot and no bra, rushed back from her studio during the fire to grab...
...stevedore to apricot picker, then moved on to the University of California at Berkeley for graduate work. He won his Ph.D. in chemistry with a learned thesis: The Inelastic Scattering of Fast Neutrons. After graduation he stayed on at Berkeley, went happily into the laboratory of the late great chemist, Gilbert Newton Lewis, as an assistant. A popular teacher, Seaborg advanced swiftly up the academic ladder, finally becoming chancellor of the university in 1958. At the same time, he was a leading figure in the university's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory: he served for 13 years as its pioneering director...
...when it tangles with chlorophyll in a living green plant cell. Step by painful step, Calvin and his large group of helpers followed CO 2 , tagged with carbon 14, through the intricate photosynthetic processes that start when green leaves are exposed to sunlight. But the greatest insight came to Chemist Calvin one day while he was in his car waiting at a traffic light. After that, he and his group were finally able to prove that sugar, the finished product of the process, is built up in six stages, each of which adds a single carbon atom. Now, thanks...