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Just how well those U.S. labs accomplish their self-appointed task was spelled out last week when Physicist Sir John Cockcroft delivered a stern lecture to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "We have a good deal to learn from some American organizations who have a consistent record of success in developing new products by objective basic and applied research," said Sir John, who spoke with the authority of a Nobel Laureate (1951) and an Atoms for Peace Award winner (1961). As an example, he singled out the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York and New Jersey, where...
...college to be built at Cambridge in this century: fast-rising Churchill, sponsored by Sir Winston and prodded by his motto, "Forward." At Churchill, 70% of the 540 men will be in science; half will be graduates. Churchill's purpose, says its master. Sir John Cockcroft, "is to increase the output of highly trained scientists and technicians for industry...
...swiftly increasing importance in U.S. science. Until a decade ago, the Swedish Nobel Prizes (1960 value: $43,627) were almost alone in their class. They still have the most prestige, but other prizes are richer. The Ford Atoms for Peace Award brings $75,000 (latest winner Sir John Cockcroft). Next comes the $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award. And to raise the ante, all bona fide prize money, except when given by a company to an employee, is tax free...
First master of Churchill College will be Sir John Cockcroft, founder and head of Britain's atomic research center at Harwell. His qualifications are impressive: in 1932, while working at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford, he and Physicist E.T.S. Walton earned a Nobel Prize for pioneer work in splitting lithium atoms. Behind Sir Winston and Sir John in the project are many of Britain's industrial leaders, who have given most of the $8,000,000 already collected toward the $11 million the college is expected to cost. (U.S. firms have also made contributions, and Sir Winston has given...
...Cockcroft was especially impressed with the amount of money and manpower the Russians are allocating to the fusion-power drive. Admitted Cockcroft: "The Russians are at about the same stage as ourselves, but they are working on a much broader front. They are faced with the same problems, but they work three or four times faster...