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...latest experiment, about to be published in the 1776 Philosophical Transactions, is by Henry Cavendish, the eccentric British millionaire chemist who has been investigating the properties of hydrogen. Instead of testing what electric fish actually do, Cavendish attempted to duplicate their actions by creating an artificial ray and then passing an electric current through it from a battery of the devices known as Leyden phials. He constructed a fish out of wood, with the shock organs made of pewter, but he was dissatisfied with the results, partly because the artificial fish gave off weaker shocks when submerged under water. Cavendish...
...origins of the nuclear bomb project date back to Israel's birth. Atomic scientists were encouraged by Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first President and a chemist of international repute. Israeli nuclear experts produced low-grade uranium from phosphate in the Negev and developed an efficient technique for producing heavy water. In 1953, Israel, in exchange for these processes, was allowed to study France's nuclear program and participate in its Sahara tests. Four years later, France gave Israel its first nuclear reactor. Later, the French also helped with the design of Israel's Dimona Atomic Research Community in the Negev...
Intellectual Allure. The son of a Yorkshire chemist, young Harold was probably drawn to Labor more by the intellectual allure of its pre-war Fabianism than by any burning class consciousness. "I haven't read Marx," he admitted. "I got stuck on that footnote on page 2." He joined the civil service in 1940 to aid the war effort, leaving his post as an economics don at Oxford; three years later, at age 27, he became chief economist in the wartime fuel and power ministry. At 29 he won a seat in Commons, where he has remained...
Died. Michael Polanyi, 84, physical chemist and philosopher who was a leading scientist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin before he resigned in protest against the Nazis in 1933; in London. Hungarian-born, Polanyi achieved distinction in early X-ray research. A voluntary exile from Hitler's Third Reich, Polanyi moved to England and turned to social science. In 1940 he published The Contempt of Freedom, an attack on Soviet intellectual authoritarianism. Later, Polanyi argued that natural science alone cannot account for "the fact of human greatness...
America (as we all know) believes in "free" trade, but not so free that U.S. industry is outdone. So feeble excuses like destruction of the ozone layer are put forth, even when every chemist knows that the Concorde would have an infinitesimal effect on the ozone layer, which is already being so effectively destroyed by the hydrofluorides in spray cans...