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...Davisson and his colleague Lester Germer in 1925 inadvertently stumbled on experimental proof of a crucial aspect of quantum theory. Davisson noticed that a stream of electrons beamed at a crystal of pure nickel was diffracted, a phenomenon that is characteristic of light waves. Electrons had been thought to exist only as sub-atomic particles until, just a few years before Davisson's observation, the newly developing quantum theory suggested that electrons could behave as both particles and waves. Here was proof, and it won Davisson a Nobel...
More change will certainly come as U.S. manufacturers try to compete with foreign producers. "This is an issue the whole country is going to have to deal with," says Whitney. Yet not even Allen-Bradley plans to automate existing product lines; the cost of redesigning traditional manufacturing processes would be too great. The totally automated, problem-free factory that can turn out complex consumer products like cars and dishwashers remains a science-fiction fantasy. What does exist, for now, is Allen-Bradley's Department 260, a step toward the future, with temperamental machines named Clarabelle that need patting...
...Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, got Sir Peter Hall, the National Theater director, to agree to stage Farm independently, not as part of the festival. Now Hall is raising a squawk: Censorship! No, replies Soyinka: the booking was scratched only to ensure that the festival does not "cease to exist." Rejoins Hall: Soyinka's rationalization was "double-talk worthy of Squealer," the propagandistic pig in Animal Farm...
Although Perkins refuses to characterize the finances of the Center in "any way," the remarks of others familiar with the committee suggest financial difficulties do exist. "Crisis is not the word I'd use," says Robert D. Putnam, another member of the CMES executive committee, before declining to comment further on the Center's finances...
Cohen, another four-year council veteran, doesnot have as optimistic a view of the council'sfuture as Lakhdhir. "I at least see it continuingto exist for the next couple of years," he says."As for the next 10 years, I don't know...