Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rebound Effect. Emphasis on the contraceptive powers of the progestins (as chemists call the semisynthetic cousins of progesterone, the natural hormone) is an ironic accident. Ten years ago, Dr. Gregory Pincus, 57, the Einstein-maned research chief at Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, was studying problems of overfertility and underfertility, using laboratory animals. What he learned led him to turn to Boston's Dr. John Rock for help. Rock, then professor of gynecology at Harvard, gave progesterone to women who seemingly could not conceive. They took the pills for 20 days of each monthly cycle. The hormone suppressed ovulation...
...inadequacies and ineptitudes... he wears thick glasses, has a large nose, and is flagrantly Jewish.... Most of the officers on Prospect Street would agree that this precisely describes the sort of man who at all costs must be kept out. It is also a fairly accurate portrait of Einstein...
...Classes find in them a kind of a assuagement for never having attended a school of higher learning. It becomes so pleasant and so challenging for an experienced but unschooled adult to be given the opportunity to think like an adult, to think, really, with Socrates, Shakespeare, Freud, and Einstein...
Building on its own past, science climbs in an ever steepening curve. For every Newton or Galileo or Einstein, with their intuitive explosions of individual genius, there follow hundreds of other scientists, probing and proving and progressing. Such is the soar of the scientific exponential curve (see diagram) that, it has been said, almost 90% of all the scientists that the world has ever produced are alive today...
...thought he had the answer?and four years later he completed a device that proved he was correct. It was a maser, in which hopped-up ammonia molecules were made to serve as an atomic clock of unequaled accuracy. Since then, Townes's maser has been used to check Einstein's theory of relativity. It may soon revolutionize radar and open up new channels for communication. Townes is currently on leave from Columbia University to work at the Institute for Defense Analysis in Washington...