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During a study of air pollution in 1968, two researchers using an electron microscope at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, England spotted strange polyhedron-shaped particles, each only .00002 inches across. Uncertain whether they were looking at a new form of life or merely a speck of soot, the scientists spent a year trying to identify the airborne organisms. They enlisted the aid of a dozen outside research institutes. Last November, still unable to identify their discovery, they described it in a paper published in Nature, and asked the world's biological community to help solve...
...Making Tracks. There were also some smaller surprises. Examining the lunar material with scanning electron microscopes, scientists observed that even the tiniest granules were cratered by micrometeorite bombardment. They also saw miniaturized versions of the larger glassy spheres spotted and collected by the Apollo astronauts; they were apparently formed by splashes of hot debris from meteorite impacts. Several scientists showed electron micrographs of pyroxenes (a mineral also found on earth) that had crystallized in a remarkable candy-stripe pattern. The investigators also saw tiny tracks produced in the rocks by the bombardment of cosmic ray and solar particles. Made millions...
...Subtlety. By the early 1920s, investigations into the atom had struck an impasse. The old Newtonian laws could explain such motions as those of the planets around the sun; they could not account for the subtle behavior of electrons whirling around the nucleus of an atom. Trying to work their way out of this quandary, Born and other scientists held that the motion of the electron was discontinuous or broken into pockets of energy called quanta. Others conceived of electrons as continuous, uninterrupted waves. Though these theories helped explain atomic phenomena, they could not tell physicists where an individual electron...
...these principles or issues is the extent to which the University should become an active, formal partner in group research efforts. It has already done so in a number of cases: the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the many Centers and Institutes, the Materials Project, and even the several research funds such as the Milton Fund. A number of other proposals have been denied. Clearly such decisions involve several factors such as the wisdom and relevance of the venture and its ultimate cost to Harvard's limited resources as well as the felt need of faculty groups for special research facilities. Since...
Harvard has not received a letter, but its Electron Accelerator contract is up for renewal soon. The Corporation's statement should eliminate any troubles with the government: a contract compliance officer in HEW said last week that the statement "appears to satisfy all our requirements...