Word: complicatedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To the handful of graduates who take his advanced physics course, he is a lucid, if somewhat rapid lecture. He generally arrives late for class, marching in to scribble bursts of equations on the blackboard with incredible speed. When his right hand gets tired writing he switches to his left...
Although he has won several prizes for his past work, the National Academy Prize, in 1949, the first Einstein prize in 1951, a medal from Columbia in 1951 ("They were supposed to give me an honorary degree, but I was too young"), Schwinger believes that his present work will be...
State Secret is set in the grim environs of Stepna, the mythical capitol of a mythical Balkan country ruled by the all-powerful mythical dictator Niva. As a brilliant young American doctor, Fairbanks is involved in the complicated machinations of a totalitarian state. He consequently also become involved with a...
To make his helicopter go up or down he incorporated the idea of the variable-pitch propeller; by increasing the rotor blades' bite on the air (and simultaneously opening the throttle), he increased their lifting power. But to steer the machine forward, backward or sideways he made the blades subject...
An Engineer's Nightmare. All this was harder to do than to plan. He had to build a hub that would contain all the gear necessary for these subtle and complicated changes of altitude and still let the blades ride free (to kill gyroscopic effect and preserve a balance of...