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...inspector sought out the society's treasurer, Dr. George B. Pegram. The doctor instantly suggested an oddly named suspect: Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, a former member, who had written a crackpot paper entitled "So You Love Physics" in which he argued that there was no such thing as an electron. Peakes had been railing at the society by mail for months for refusing to publish him. His letters had been mailed from six different Boston addresses...
Astronomer Fritz Zwicky of Cal Tech thinks there is another way to pack matter tightly. Normal atoms contain one electron for each proton in the nucleus. If the electrons could be persuaded to unite with the protons, each pair would form a neutron. This reaction does not take place under normal conditions; the electrons circle forever, and the protons stay in the nucleus. But Zwicky believes that under the strange and violent conditions that exist in certain large stars, electrons may unite with protons...
...electron microscope is man's sharpest artificial eye, but it can examine only dead, dry objects. The electron stream that it uses instead of light requires a high vacuum, so no water or water vapor can remain in the instrument. The usual method of preparing microorganisms or viruses for electron microscopy is to dry them at ordinary temperatures before putting them in the instrument...
...revolutionary electron gun, developed by the University of Chicago's Dr. Robert J. Moon, is being perfected for X-raying hard-to-get-at organs such as the stomach and lower intestines. Using a pinpoint X-ray beam and a scanning system, it throws a brilliant, enlarged image on a TV screen, subjects both patient and radiologist to much smaller and safer doses of X rays than older methods...
Reinhold Rudenberg, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering, is also retiring. Rudenberg who has been at Harvard since 1939 is the inventor of the electron microscope. He is responsible for many of the basic theories relative to the operation of electric machinery and power systems...