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...Granta's list, Timoleon Vieta Come Home has neither the contemporary crackle of Smith and Litt, nor the intellectual and verbal grandeur of Amis and McEwan. Instead, Rhodes writes straight from - and about - the heart. Timoleon Vieta is the name of a beloved, scruffy pooch who belongs to Carthusians Cockcroft, an aging, gay, composer who has retired, sad and alone, to the Umbrian countryside, where he boozes and listlessly cruises for some thrill to replace the boy in silver shorts who broke his heart. When a young, brutish (and dog-hating) man known only as the Bosnian comes to stay...
DIED. ERNEST T.S. WALTON, 91, Nobel laureate who, with car batteries, bicycle parts, cookie tins, glass tubing and partner Sir John Cockcroft, became the first scientist to split an atom, proving that E did indeed equal mc2 and ushering in the hope and terror of the nuclear age; in Belfast...
...coaster rides of the spirit, feverish omnisexual trips through the tunnel of love, and crazy images reflected in the distorting fun-house mirrors of the mind. The master and slave of this berserk carnival is a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart, after the pseudonymous author, whose real name is George Cockcroft. Cockcroft took the hero's name as his pen name "because the book is in part autobiographical and I wanted to force the reader to take the book more seriously than he would a novel." Luke is a square who learns to live by the cube. One night, after...
...monster at Batavia not yet in operation, the world's most powerful atom smasher is the Soviets' 76 billion-electron-volt accelerator near Moscow. As in some other circular accelerators, Batavia's "bullets" are protons. The arsenal that provides them is a device called a Cockcroft-Walton accelerator (named after two British physicists), which produces protons by boiling electrons off hydrogen atoms. After these protons are given an initial boost by the machine's high-voltage field, they are pushed by powerful pulses of high-frequency radio waves through a relatively short (500 ft.) linear accelerator...
Died. Sir John Cockcroft, 70, dean of British nuclear physicists; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, England. In 1932, Cockcroft and his research partner, E.T.S. Walton, were the first to release atomic energy by splitting the atom with proton "bullets" in a linear accelerator instead of using naturally radioactive particles, the previous technique. That breakthrough led to the development of the atom bomb anc won the partners the Nobel Prize fo Physics in 1951. By then, Sir John was director of the Harwell atomic research center, pointing Britain's nuclear capability toward peaceful applica tions, including her first nuclear...