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Food processors became a favorite tool of American gourmets after Carl Sontheimer, 67, a portly retired electron ics engineer from Connecticut, saw them at a French housewares show in 1971. Sontheimer soon signed an agreement with the manufacturer, Robot-Coupe, to market the processors in the U.S. under the trade name Cuisinart. Food mavens like Julia Child and Craig Claiborne immediately pronounced the machine magnifique, and sales took...
...have been circulating for more than a decade, but only in the last two years have two independent experiments, one performed by a Soviet research team and another by scientists at the University of California at Irvine, provided evidence that even the lightest neutrinos have masses close to ten electron volts. Ten electron volts comprise about 0.002 per cent of the mass of an electron...
DIED. John Van Vleck, 81, physicist regarded as the "father of modern magnetism"; in Cambridge, Mass. Van Vleck was the first to indicate the significance of "electron correlation," or the interaction between the motions of electrons; and his 1932 book, The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities, remains a classic in the field. His research, for which he was a co-recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics, helped explain how a foreign atom invades the symmetrical structure of a crystal, and was basic to the development of modern computer memory systems...
Most of the best and heavily supported research is done under military auspices, which means that the work is kept tightly under wraps. For this reason, Western analysts long could only guess about Soviet progress in, say, lasers and electron beams. Both of these technologies are essential to achieving a key Soviet defense goal: an antisatellite satellite. After word that the Soviets had developed such a killer satellite reached Washington, the Carter Administration quietly ordered the Pentagon to step up its own studies of these devices...
...their surprise, the scientists counted fewer than half the electron neutrinos anticipated. Reines speculates that they had changed flavors, or oscillated, turning into muon or tau neutrinos during their short journey. If such a switch had occurred, the neutrinos must have mass (since physics dictates that one kind of particle must have mass to turn into another). Said Reines: "The simple view [of the massless neutrino] does not square with experimental facts...