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...assembly of the first full-scale pile, CP-1, on a doubles squash court under the stands of the university football field in late 1942. Built up in layers inside wooden framing, it took the shape of a doorknob the size of a two-car garage--a flattened graphite ellipsoid 25 ft. wide and 20 ft. high, weighing nearly 100 tons. Dec. 2 dawned to below-zero cold. That morning the State Department announced that 2 million Jews had perished in Europe and 5 million more were in danger; American boys and Japanese were dying at Guadalcanal. It was cold...
After months of painstaking measurements, some of the mystery was stripped from Sgr A*. It proved to be shaped like an ellipsoid no more than 1.9 billion miles long and almost a billion miles wide -- impressive by earthly standards but diminutive on a galactic scale and in relation to the tremendous amount of energy it emits. Concludes Astronomer Donald Backer of the University of California, Berkeley: "What we observe is a very bright, compact object that appears to be rather small by stellar dimensions. Yet it's radiating a lot of luminosity. There are many stellar objects in the galaxy...
...Bohr Institute, *and Rainwater, of Columbia University, were cited for their 1940s and 1950s research on the inner structure of the atom. They helped explain oddities in the nucleus' behavior by showing that its myriad components spun and vibrated so as to distort the nucleus into an unexpected ellipsoid, rather than a sphere. These new insights helped set the stage for many of the important advances in particle physics during the past two decades of experimentation...
...Italian master draftsman. Alberto Giacometti. Giacometti's portraits appear layered; white lines contouring a head on a dark background seem to be a stack of negatives. Naum Gabo also emphasizes space, but he works with three-dimensional materials. By winding strings around transparent plastic, he defines an ellipsoid within a rectangular boundary. As Picasso took the viewer through space with uncanny juxtapositions of his subject's position. Gabo constructs his space by pulling us into the elliptical void as well as asking us to follow the contours formed by the elegant curves of the plastic thread that area from...
...FRENCH PAVILION will consist mainly of three buildings looking like a children's game in their pure geometrical forms: a rectangle housing Maxim's restaurant, an immense egg-shaped ellipsoid (the largest structural ellipse ever built), which will shelter a 1,500-seat theater for the Folies-Bergére, and a pyramid in which visitors will view "The Treasures of Versailles," a huge collection of paintings and art objects...