Word: furth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep-frozen device that acts as an oscillator and promises to grow into a Versitron-like amplifier. Magnetic Explosion. The magnetic fields that exist around horseshoe magnets are gentle, harmless things, but when a magnetic field gets really intense, it acts like a high explosive. Physicists H. P. Furth of the University of California, M. A. Levine of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center, and R. W. Waniek of Harvard showed a ring of hard beryllium copper that had been expanded plastically by a magnetic field, even though it was surrounded by steel many inches thick...
...unheard-of level of 1,600,000 gauss.* Pressure rose above 1,000,000 lbs. per sq. in., and the metal churned and writhed as the magnetism clawed into it. Such pressure and violent motion may have some bearing on nuclear fusion, and this may be why Furth is now working at the famous hydrogen-bomb laboratory at Livermore, Calif...
...single magnetic explosion, which makes a bang like a big gun, destroys costly apparatus, so Furth, Levine and Waniek are trying to design a super-magnet that will not destroy itself. The basic idea is to oppose one magnetic force by another magnetic force instead of by the passive strength of metal. Theoretically this can be done by elaborately wound coils, or by copper sheets intersecting in intricate ways. The theory looks so good that the three scientists are promising to deliver many million gauss of magnetic field, and to churn matter in ways that it has never been churned...
...malice and darkness, it is perhaps not surprising to see some present-day pessimists accused as traitors or, at best, as imbeciles. One consequence may well be a trend towards blind sponsorship of space-trips and death ray machines on the part of job-conscious government scientists. Harold P. Furth '51 Research Assistant, Cyclotron Laboratory
Other officers chosen are: Robert E. Herzstein and Myles V. Whalen, note editors; John M. Steadman, treasurer; David L. Ratner and Helmut F. Furth, article editors; Nathan Newbury III and George G. Gillespie III, case editors; Henry J. Steiner, developments editor; and Robert H. Cole, book review editor...